Tunisia Owens
Program Development Consultant
Tunisia M. Owens is a passionate advocate on issues of Black economic empowerment, domestic and sexual violence, criminal justice reform, housing as a human right, homelessness, and education equity. Tunisia has served the public at non-profit organizations and government agencies in the Bay Area. She returned home to Oakland after a career as a diplomat proudly representing the US in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South America. Tunisia’s research interests include the intersection between technology and future of work; US mass incarceration as a form of Genocide, the intersection between gender-based violence and homelessness, the economic impacts of forced/child marriage, inter-generational wealth transfers for Black families, and the creation of Black ‘family’.
She graduated from Spelman College in Political Science and Economics, holds a joint Master’s degree from Princeton University in Public Policy and Urban/Regional Planning, and obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of California Law, San Francisco (formerly Hastings College of Law).