Brit Christopher

Brit Christopher is a Stoneleigh Youth Advocacy Fellow at Juvenile Law Center. She started her career at the organization in 2017 as a youth advocate in Advocates Transforming Youth Systems, formerly known as Youth Fostering Change. During Brit’s time in the Youth Advocacy Program, she worked on projects like the Operation: Education publication, Juveniles for Justice's Road Map to Reform and the Philadelphia Ombudsperson Office Project. Brit also served on Juvenile Law Center’s board as an observer. She is a seasoned trauma-informed facilitator and advocate focused on driving systemic change and amplifying marginalized voices.  

Prior to becoming a Stoneleigh Youth Advocacy Fellow, Brit worked as Lead Facilitator at the Transforming Justice Hub where she taught teens and young adults the history of systemic oppression and trained them to become Restorative Circle Keepers. Prior to joining the hub, Brit functioned as Senior Peer at the Drexel University Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice. While at CNSJ she provided trauma-informed counseling and advocacy to violently injured people ages 7 to 63, as well as running CYPHER ‘Community of Young People Healing Experiencing and Rebuilding’ groups in Philadelphia high schools, community centers, and diversion programs. Brit’s commitment to youth justice goes beyond challenging issues of institutional placement; she works to address all the root causes that attribute to family policing and youth incarceration such as racism, housing instability, environmental justice, food security, and immigration rights. 

Brit aims to create a healing oasis in Philadelphia to address mental wellness in urban communities and reduce community violence with her nonprofit Trilogy Arts. She is a painter, poet, organizer, and abolitionist from North Philly, driven by a deep commitment to build and sustain healing spaces for young people, especially Black and Indigenous youth impacted by child welfare and youth carceral systems. Brit currently works with Care, Not Control as a grassroots organizer to abolish youth incarceration, Swarthmore College Good Energy Collaborative as their abolitionist project consultant, and Youth First Justice Collaborative as the literary editorial apprentice for the No Kids in Prison magazine. Brit plans to attend law school to become a youth defense attorney and movement lawyer so that she can continue holding systems accountable and improving the lives of young people.