About STOP
StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) was first created by Creative Interventions to collect and share stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence through people power – not the power of the state. These powerful stories remain as the StoryTelling & Organizing Project Story Archive.
In 2025, Creative Interventions joined with Just Practice Collaborative to re-launch STOP, starting with the Stories for Power Podcast, an oral history project exploring the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolition feminist practice in Durham, NYC, SF Bay Area, Atlanta, Philly, Seattle, Chicago and more. We are also relaunching the StoryTelling & Organizing Project Story Archive by collecting new stories from everyday people everywhere.
We invite you to explore the Stories for Power Podcast and the StoryTelling & Organizing Project Story Archive – and submit your own story if you have one to share.
Meet the Team
Mimi Kim
Lead Producer
Mimi Kim is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided. She’s a co-founder of Incite! and a founder of Creative Interventions, one of the partner organizations of this relaunch of the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) / Stories For Power. She has lived in many of the cities featured in this podcast series. Born in Seattle, politically raised in Chicago, a long time Oakland person, and now living in Los Angeles. Mimi is author of several articles on carceral feminism and transformative justice.
Rachel Caidor
Lead Producer
Rachel Caïdor is an abolitionist feminist who has spent over 25 years supporting survivors of sexual, domestic, and state violence. She is a member of Love and Protect and is a co-founder of Just Practice Collaborative. She lives and works in Chicago.
Shira Hassan
Lead Producer
Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice. As a fellow at Interrupting Criminalization, Shira runs The Help Desk which supports individuals and groups working to interrupt crises and violence without using the police. She is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators with Mariame Kaba, and the author of Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction.
Deana Lewis
Podcast Host
Deana is one of the founding members of Just Practice Collaborative, whose purpose is to build communities’ capacities to respond to intimate partner violence and sexual assault without relying on state-based systems. She also participates in the work of Love & Protect and Survived & Punished, two prison abolition collectives dedicated to supporting transgender and cisgender women, trans men, and gender-expansive folks of color who are harmed and criminalized by interpersonal and state violence. Finally, Deana is a Senior Associate Director at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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iLL Weaver
Producer, Sound Recordist, and Editor
iLL Weaver is a Detroit-based artist and organizer. They co-founded Emergence Media, Complex Movements, Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA), Freedom Team Detroit, and REIMAGINE. They are a trans/ gender-nonconforming person of European (Ashkenazi/antizionist) heritage. They produce and facilitate media for liberation.
Yessica González Rodríguez
Digital Strategist
Yessica González Rodríguez (they/them) is a facilitator, digital strategist, and artist based on occupied Tiwa Pueblo Lands. Their work lives at the intersection of trans, queer, and migrant justice to see a world without prisons, borders, and binaries. Yessica has spent the last decade building digital campaigns to uplift marginalized communities that are excessively targeted and criminalized. Yessica has a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in Gender Studies and is currently pursuing a PhD in American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
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Soniya Munshi
Story Archive Producer
Soniya Munshi is a writer, researcher, and educator who has been involved in gender justice movements for thirty years. Her work takes up themes of feminist interdependence, structures of care, and transformative justice in BIPOC immigrant communities. Soniya is based in Queens, NYC, the borough that raised her.
Joe Namy
Sound Engineer and Music Editor
As an artist, composer and educator, Joe Namy works with sound not just as a medium but also as a socio-cultural and political material, engaging it through the histories and memories it carries and transmits and the archival traces that hold them, the public spaces it occupies and activates, and the communities it brings and holds together.
Do You Have a Story ?
The StoryTelling & Organizing Project was created to collect and share stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence.
When we talked to people about community-based responses to violence, we began to hear stories from people usually starting with the question, “You mean something like this?” What followed were stories, lots of stories — each a unique lesson in courage, creativity and collective action. We decided to collect these stories to inform and inspire our work in community accountability and transformative justice.
Fill out the form to the right or email us at
StoriesforPower at gmail.com.