Survivors Know Organizing.
Survivors Know is a Midwest-based, survivor-led organization advancing a future beyond power-based violence. We build survivor power through intersectional, structural organizing — partnering with those most impacted to transform oppressive systems, deepen accountability, and cultivate the conditions for collective thriving. Rather than managing crisis, we work to fundamentally change the environments that enable harm, investing in survivor leadership and community-driven transformation.Survivors Know is a community led by survivors, working together to change the systems that perpetuate violence. As survivors, we unite to challenge the way things are, break down harmful power structures, and build new ways of supporting each other so everyone can thrive.
Survivors & Worker Organizing
We fill a critical gap within community and worker-organizing spaces. Unlike traditional models, which are often transactional with predetermined agendas and campaigns, our approach is rooted in the wholeness of survivors. Workers are encouraged to bring their full selves to our organizing spaces; they set the agenda and are architects of their own liberation.
Healing Justice
For workers and survivors, healing justice challenges the harmful notion that healing is an individual labor. Instead, it is a nonlinear and communal process that recognizes the collective nature of harm and repair. Healing justice is about co-creating interventions that honor grief, dismantle oppressive systems, and build life-affirming infrastructures. It reconnects us with indigenous frameworks and ancestral wisdom, strengthens our capacity to face crises without collapse, and empowers us to improvise liberation in real time.
Healing justice is not merely about enduring harm but about transforming it. It’s a practice of remaking our world, piece by piece, with resilience, care, and imagination—together.
Transforming Systems and Structures
We work to dismantle harmful systems and build survivor- and community-led interventions. Through power mapping and organizing, we expose the dynamics that perpetuate harm and oppression, enabling us to strategically challenge and bring about change.
Our Vision
We envision and strive to create a world where survivor liberation defines our dreams, drives our work, and connects our communities.
Solidarity, Accountability and Liberation.
We are a survivor-led organization focused on dismantling power-based violence and oppression. Through solidarity and accountability, we organize for survivor liberation and create systemic change.
Our Team
Meet the dedicated individuals leading our mission.
Our Board Members
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What Our Members Are Saying
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