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Social Change

Cara Page

Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist writer, cultural memory worker, organizer, and producer whose work has shaped healing justice, abolitionist organizing, and the preservation of movement histories.

Linda Magano Baumann

Linda Magano Baumann is a Namibian lesbian human-rights activist, community organizer, and media advocate whose work has advanced LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights, and social justice. Her advocacy has connected grassroots organizing in Namibia with regional African and international human-rights networks.

Naomi Washington-Leapheart

American minister, professor, movement strategist, and justice advocate whose work connects Black queer life, faith, theology, education, and social justice. She has worked in LGBTQ+ faith organizing, Philadelphia city government, higher education, and movement strategy. She is the founder of Salt | Yeast | Light and serves as Strategic Partnerships Director at Political Research Associates.

Alicia Garza

Organizer, civil rights leader, author, and political strategist best known as co-creator of the Black Lives Matter movement and for advancing Black political power through community organizing.

Adaku Utah

Adaku Utah is a Nigerian American healing justice practitioner, somatics practitioner, multidisciplinary artist, and educator whose work centers embodiment, collective care, and Black liberation.

Kierra Johnson

Kierra Johnson is an American LGBTQ+ and reproductive-justice advocate, organizer, and leader who serves as President of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Her work centers queer liberation, reproductive justice, youth leadership, and equity.

Janaya Future Khan

Janaya Future Khan is a Canadian nonbinary activist, organizer, storyteller, writer, and social-justice educator whose work centers Black liberation, LGBTQ+ rights, gender justice, and movement building. Born and raised in Toronto and later based in Los Angeles, Khan became an international voice for Black Lives Matter.

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is a Ugandan human rights activist, community organizer, and media founder whose work has advanced LGBTQ+ rights, challenged discrimination, and created platforms for LGBTQ+ Ugandans to document and share their own experiences.

Charlene Carruthers

Charlene A. Carruthers is a Black lesbian writer, filmmaker, scholar, and community organizer whose work connects Black queer feminism, movement building, and social justice.

Mandy Carter

American Black lesbian activist and organizer whose more than five decades of movement work have connected racial justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, nonviolence, peace, and Southern organizing. She co-founded Southerners On New Ground and the National Black Justice Coalition.

Monica Simpson

American activist, organizer, singer, spoken-word artist, and reproductive-justice leader whose work centers reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ liberation, racial justice, and community organizing. She is Executive Director of SisterSong.

Andrea Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian writer, organizer, researcher, and network weaver whose three decades of work document and challenge policing and criminalization affecting Black women, girls, trans people, and gender-nonconforming people.

Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah (Lady Phyll)

A British activist, community organizer, human rights defender, and anti-racism campaigner, widely known as Lady Phyll. She is the Founder and CEO of UK Black Pride and Executive Director of DIVA Charitable Trust.

Imani Rupert-Gordon

Imani Rupert-Gordon is a Black queer community organizer and nonprofit leader whose work centers LGBTQ+ communities, particularly Black LGBTQ+ people and women. She has led community organizations in Chicago and serves as president of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, where she leads national LGBTQ+ rights advocacy.

Val Kalende

Ugandan human rights advocate and LGBTQ+ activist who helped establish organized lesbian and LGBTQ+ activism in Uganda through Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG) and became an internationally recognized voice on LGBTQ+ rights, faith, sexuality, and human rights.

Morenike Giwa Onaiwu

American activist-scholar, author, educator, and advocate whose work centers disability justice, human rights, neurodiversity, HIV advocacy, and intersectional community leadership. She founded Advocacy Without Borders and is a prolific writer and editor.

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