Who we are

The If I Don’t Do It Institute (IIDDII) was born in the shadow of the 1994 Crime Bill — a policy that destroyed families, erased futures, and flooded our communities with cages instead of care. We exist to turn that damage into data, and that data into change. We are a health and research institute led by the formerly incarcerated, dedicated to estoring agency, dismantling systemic violence, and designing what justice should have looked like all along. If we don’t do it, it won’t get done.

“Built from the wreckage of the Crime Bill. Powered by the people. If we don’t do it, it don’t get done.”