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Senoj "Egypt" Jones
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Senoj Egypt Jones is a groundbreaking transgender Creole artist, organizer, and scholar. Senoj specializes in upscaling small community-based and grassroots social justice organizations, with a specific focus on advancing access to justice for transgender girls and women of color, both behind and beyond the prison bars.
Senoj’s lived experiences and her intersections of systems-impact guide everything we do at ALIGHT. Shortly after aging out of the foster care system, she was entered into the legal system and then the prison system. As a young woman of color being housed in a men’s prison, she discovered the ACT program and brought her big, beautiful, courageous voice to our group at San Quentin – and none of us were ever the same again. We continue to learn from the joyful way that Senoj stands up to the structural and institutional forces that block equity access to every part of her identity, as well as from the deeply loving way she shows up and fights for the most systems-impacted and underserved communities.
Since earning her freedom from prison and parole, Senoj has not stopped reaching back. She has served as a director of a foster youth program that provides direct services to youth ages 10-18, including social development, counseling, trauma-healing processes, health understanding & advocacy, creative workshops, and career planning. She has also supported adults living at the intersections of the greatest oppression — including TGI (Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex) people, incarcerated people, and people of color — both through direct services and community organizing.
As a service provider and program practitioner,
Senoj has created safe spaces and platforms to elevate and empower the voices & narratives of Transgender People of Color; Initiated outreach and provided case management to previously incarcerated adults, both trans and cisgender; Coordinated and facilitated peer groups and one-on-one counseling; Taught courses in employment preparation & professional development; and she has been an invaluable developer of the programs and curricula of ALIGHT Justice, including serving as the first Vicarious Survivor in the program ALIGHT developed for state court.
Senoj also shines as a community advocate and organizer, lighting up all of her efforts with her artistry. She has written for and emceed numerous events, from small fundraisers to intersectional national mega-conferences of more than 1200 attendees and community leaders.
Senoj’s lived experiences and her intersections of systems-impact guide everything we do at ALIGHT. Shortly after aging out of the foster care system, she was entered into the legal system and then the prison system. As a young woman of color being housed in a men’s prison, she discovered the ACT program and brought her big, beautiful, courageous voice to our group at San Quentin – and none of us were ever the same again. We continue to learn from the joyful way that Senoj stands up to the structural and institutional forces that block equity access to every part of her identity, as well as from the deeply loving way she shows up and fights for the most systems-impacted and underserved communities.
Since earning her freedom from prison and parole, Senoj has not stopped reaching back. She has served as a director of a foster youth program that provides direct services to youth ages 10-18, including social development, counseling, trauma-healing processes, health understanding & advocacy, creative workshops, and career planning. She has also supported adults living at the intersections of the greatest oppression — including TGI (Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex) people, incarcerated people, and people of color — both through direct services and community organizing.
As a service provider and program practitioner,
Senoj has created safe spaces and platforms to elevate and empower the voices & narratives of Transgender People of Color; Initiated outreach and provided case management to previously incarcerated adults, both trans and cisgender; Coordinated and facilitated peer groups and one-on-one counseling; Taught courses in employment preparation & professional development; and she has been an invaluable developer of the programs and curricula of ALIGHT Justice, including serving as the first Vicarious Survivor in the program ALIGHT developed for state court.
Senoj also shines as a community advocate and organizer, lighting up all of her efforts with her artistry. She has written for and emceed numerous events, from small fundraisers to intersectional national mega-conferences of more than 1200 attendees and community leaders.
