Teiahsha Bankhead, MSW, Ph.D., Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), is a social justice activist, licensed psychotherapist and a professor who has taught racial, gender and sexual orientation diversity, theories of criminal behavior, and US social policy. Formerly a Research Fellow at both the National Institute of Mental Health and the U.S. Psychiatric Congress, she is the co-author of Preserving Privilege: California Politics, Propositions and People of Color.