Tamisha Walker

Tamisha, co-founder and Executive Director of the Safe Return Project, has over a decade of community organizing experience in cities impacted by trauma, mass criminalization, and economic inequality.

Tamisha was a Rosenberg Foundation Leading Edge Fund fellow and, in 2020, was elected to the Antioch City Council. 

Tamisha has been awarded the San Francisco Robert C. Kirkwood Leadership Award and Contra Costa County's Humanitarian of the Year Award. She also received the Community Excellence award by The Black Elected Officials of the East Bay, for her amazing track record of demonstrated excellence in her field and the highest standards of unity, ethical conduct, integrity, and civic and social responsibility. 

Tamisha has been appointed to the several Contra Costa County boards: Racial Justice Oversight Body, Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council, and the Contra Costa LEAD Antioch diversion initiative advisory committee.
Creating Freedom Movements nurtures visionary grassroots leaders who build beloved community, cross-issue solidarity and infrastructures of justice & joy. We heal people and the planet by moving from cultures of separation & domination to cultures of connection & reciprocity.