Imani Mfalme-Shu’la is the executive director of Community Defense of East Tennessee (CDET) and a trainer with the National Participatory Defense Network, which has hubs across the United States. CDET is a grassroots, community-based organization focused on the education, liberation, support, and empowerment of people while fighting injustices for equity, social and restorative change. Working closely with families whose loved ones are facing criminal charges, CDET gives advocacy tools to fight incarceration and has helped clients shave off hundreds of years from incarceration periods. As an organization, CDET wants to develop systems that end mass incarceration by allowing for restoration, healing, and transformation. They educate, support, and train the community in several aspects of social justice. 

Learn more about CDET here: https://www.cdetpush.org/

Read more about Imani Mfalme-Shu’la and CDET’s work in Jocelyn Simonson’s volume, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration