Karin Adams is an organizer, service provider, and has worked in the field of harm reduction in Northern California for well over a decade. Karin has a long and fond history of working with and alongside marginalized communities; centering the ethos of “There is no such thing as the ‘voiceless’, there are only the deliberately silenced, or preferably unheard” (Arundhati Roy) and ‘Nothing about us, Without us!’. Karin joined the team at Homeless Youth Alliance in San Francisco where they’ve worked for the past nine years. Three of of those years Karin ran a transitional youth housing site that completely transformed their life and instilled a deep passion for housing rooted in participant voice, transformative justice, carceral abolition principles, harm reduction, trauma-informed care, love, joy, and resiliency. While frontline work is undoubtedly necessary, Karin also prioritizes their efforts in advocacy around the decriminalization of the poor and addressing systemic inequalities.