Zakiya is currently working with the Repeal California’s Three Strikes Law Coalition as the Campaign Lead to build a coalition of grassroots organizations, community stakeholders, and impacted people to repeal the Three Strikes law with a ballot initiative in 2022. Zakiya Prince is a graduate of California State University, Northridge and has worked as an educator and social worker for the last several years. She has been a fierce advocate for her husband, who was sentenced under California’s Three Strikes law, and for many others who are directly impacted by the carceral system.  She has dedicated her life to disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline, fighting to end mass incarceration and empowering people who have been oppressed to fight for the freedoms they deserve.