About

Brandi Miss, LMBT

I do my work to end interpersonal violence and support the felt senses of safety and belonging.

I live and practice on land that was first taken from the Monacan Indian Nation by European settlers. The land then became home to people who were kidnapped from Africa and forced into chattel slavery. This land has held things horrific and unjust such as the buying and selling of enslaved individuals in court square on E Jefferson Street until 1865, the use of slave labor to construct buildings on the grounds of the University of Virginia, and the razing of the thriving Black neighborhood, Vinegar Hill, in 1964. I acknowledge colonialism and racism and how they continue to be a complex and unhealed wound in modern day Charlottesville, Virginia.