About me
Justice Gatson is a social justice doula from Kansas City Missouri. She earned a degree in Mass Communications from Bennett College, an HBCU in North Carolina. She is a community organizer,founder and director of Reale Justice Network.
Justice is a founding member of the MO KAN BIPOC Reproductive Justice Coalition, a group that is working to elevate the voices of Black and Indigenous communities as it relates to policy and legislation that impacts BIPOC birthing people. Justice trains legal observers who help to ensure the rights of protestors by observing and reporting illegal police behavior and practices. She also conducts "Know Your Rights" training, educating young people and their parents about their rights during interactions with law enforcement. She sits on a number of boards and coalitions including serving as an advisor on the Mayors Reparations Commission, Chair of The People Of Color Caucus within the National Lawyers Guild and president of the community advisory board for Kansas City Public Television. Justice worked on the Legal MO campaign to legalize marijuana in Missouri which includes automatic expungement. She is currently leading efforts to end qualified immunity in the state of Missouri via the ballot initiative process. When Justice isn't in the streets, she enjoys spending time with her family.