Just Beginnings Collaborative is a donor and organizing community that researches the root causes of child sexual abuse (CSA) and examines how communites can engage in a non-carceral and preventative approach to child sexual abuse.
The Wayfinding Project was initiated to survey the current landscape of prison abolitionist praxis movements, aiming to increase general knowledge about CSA and promote transformative justice strategies. Over three years, the project conducted extensive research to inform community-based, non-punitive responses to CSA.
I was commissioned to design a toolkit that presents the project's findings. The goal was to create a resource that is visually consistent, accessible, inclusive, and engaging, ensuring that the toolkit’s complex and heavy content were approachable and digestible by a broad audience. The societal spectacle surrounding CSA often deters organizers from actively pursuing solutions. While designing the toolkit, I aimed to avoid replicating narratives that infantilize or sensationalize the issue. Instead, the design seeks to normalize conversations around CSA. I integrated visual themes centered on proliferation and generativity to evoke feelings of growth, motivating communities to take collective action toward prevention and healing.
Sample Pages from the toolkit:
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*This project was discontinued prior to completion due policy shifts under the current presidential administration. While it was not published, the work presented here reflects the scope and quality of my contributions during its development.
The Wayfinding Project was initiated to survey the current landscape of prison abolitionist praxis movements, aiming to increase general knowledge about CSA and promote transformative justice strategies. Over three years, the project conducted extensive research to inform community-based, non-punitive responses to CSA.
I was commissioned to design a toolkit that presents the project's findings. The goal was to create a resource that is visually consistent, accessible, inclusive, and engaging, ensuring that the toolkit’s complex and heavy content were approachable and digestible by a broad audience. The societal spectacle surrounding CSA often deters organizers from actively pursuing solutions. While designing the toolkit, I aimed to avoid replicating narratives that infantilize or sensationalize the issue. Instead, the design seeks to normalize conversations around CSA. I integrated visual themes centered on proliferation and generativity to evoke feelings of growth, motivating communities to take collective action toward prevention and healing.
Sample Pages from the toolkit:
*This project was discontinued prior to completion due policy shifts under the current presidential administration. While it was not published, the work presented here reflects the scope and quality of my contributions during its development.
