Tinisch Hollins is a San Francisco-born community organizer and civic leader whose work spans public safety, economic justice, reparations, and building Black community power.
Raised in the Bayview, Hollins has built her career around the principle that people most affected by public policy should help shape it.
As Executive Director of Californians for Safety and Justice, she advocates for crime survivors, violence prevention, and community-centered public safety.
She also co-founded SF Black Wall Street, supporting Black entrepreneurship, economic mobility, and cultural vitality. In 2026, the initiative expanded into Bay Area Black Wall Street, recognizing the regional reach of a community increasingly displaced from San Francisco.
Hollins has also served on the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee.
As she has observed, “Black San Francisco is not a geographical space, and Black San Francisco is not monolithic.”
Her work raises a fundamental question: Who gets to remain in a city, build wealth, shape its institutions, and see their culture reflected in its future?
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