Director of Programs, In Her Hands | she/her

Chyna Quarker serves as the Director of Programs over the In Her Hands guaranteed income initiative.

Chyna is a proud Los Angeles native who has spent her career working on community-driven initiatives aimed at alternatives to incarceration and increasing the accessibility of quality social services in Atlanta. Prior to her current role, Chyna was the Director of Community Response Services at the Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative in Atlanta, where she built the country’s first non-emergency non-police response program through a city’s 311 line. She has since developed several extensions of that work, all focused on decriminalizing poverty and providing appropriate responses to people in crisis in Atlanta.

She began her career as a Sr. Cognitive Behavioral Health Counselor within the Georgia Department of Corrections where, in addition to providing substance use and mental health treatment, she created and implemented programs centered around family reunification, restorative justice, and recidivism prevention.

Chyna received her Bachelor’s in Psychology from Howard University and her Master’s in Political Psychology from Arizona State University where her interest in the intersection of public policy and human behavior was born.

Chyna lives in Atlanta with her cat, Balenciaga, and enjoys traveling, cafe-hopping, and fantasy football.