John Tramel has over 19 years of social work experience in the areas of community organizing, community development, mental health, domestic violence, and social justice education, organizing, and activism. He has spent years focused on creating and sustaining social service support for families in the education and child welfare arenas. John is a founding member of SURJ KC. He is committed to racial justice work because he believes that white people have a responsibility to deconstruct the ways the system of white supremacy has influenced all of us, and start taking action to address it in ourselves and our communities.