Xan West

DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS
xwest@fierceadvocates.org
510-232-5812 ext. 402

Xan holds a Certificate of Spirituality & Social Change from the Pacific School of Religion and was the former Executive Director of OneLife Institute. From 2018-2021, she was one of the co-facilitators of OneLife Institute’s Healing Black Lives. She is currently a member of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Policy Advisory Council. Proud to have been born & raised in Oakland, Xan has over 20 years of experience in social justice movement work, mostly related to police accountability, queer rights and community healing.  She is a Black queer femme and most importantly a mama to her kid, Glory.