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Keegan Freiburger is a current MSW/PhD Student in Social Welfare at UC Berkeley, which sits on the territory of Huichin, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo Ohlone, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. Before attending graduate school, they worked on youth engagement, school climate, and equity in Minneapolis Public Schools and on restorative justice in South Minneapolis, occupied Dakota land within Mni Sota Makoce, not far from Bdote, a sacred origin site to the Dakota people. Keegan's research interests include Healing/Transformative Justice, Community Interventions into Structural Violence/Oppression, White Supremacy in Education, Youth Liberation/Empowerment, Transformative Participatory Research, and Critical Pedagogy. At i4Y, Keegan works with Emily Ozer’s team in several roles including facilitation, research, and partnership development.