Language justice is an evolving framework based on the notion of respecting every individual’s fundamental language rights — to be able to communicate, understand, and be understood in the language in which they prefer and feel most articulate and powerful. Rejecting the notion of the supremacy of one language, it recognizes that language can be a tool of oppression, and as well as an important part of exercising autonomy and of advancing racial and social justice.

NAKASEC VA's Language Justice Committee, established in January 2021, was formed to initiate conversations about language access as a critical element of social justice movements, celebrate our communities' linguistic diversity, and ensure that everyone’s voices are included in the process of community change for language justice in Virginia.