Arewa Najm EKUA
Nominating Committee
Karen “Arewa” Winters was born and raised on Chicago’s Greater Westside by two phenomenal parents who taught her to operate with integrity, to care for and about people, to advocate for her community, especially it’s most vulnerable, have a strong work ethic and lastly be truthful in her actions and deeds.
She gained much experience and cultural identity working as a case manager for the mentally ill and homeless at Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Community Health Care Center. Currently she is a community organizer with Austin Coming Together. She is the founder and spokeswoman for The 411 Movement for Pierre Loury, a board member with Women’s All Points Bulletin, racial healing practitioner with Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, certified trauma & resiliency life coach, restorative justice practitioner trained by BUILD, a leading organizer and coalition member, overseeing the Chicago Consent Decree. She served as the first co-chair of the CPD Use of Force Working Group. She is also a member of National Association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (N.A.C.O.L.E.), and Expert Mechanism on Racial Discrimination in the context of Law Enforcement (E.M.L.E.R.), is alumni of the Community Leadership Fellows and is a Boyd-Barnett Fellow at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law Bluhm Legal Clinic. She is currently attending Northeastern Illinois University earning her
bachelor’s degree in police reform.
She is a classically trained chef, spoken word artist and a loving grandmother who when not liberating minds and fighting for change, enjoys spending time with family, friends and comrades, cooking, laughing, loving, and enjoying life.
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