Dr. Shannen Williams (she/her/hers) is uncovering the largely hidden history of Black Catholic sisters and their formidable roots, activism and leadership in the Black radical tradition and the Black freedom struggle.
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Maya Millett (she/her/hers) is on a mission to ensure the politics, activism, histories and lives of our earliest Black feminist foremothers will never be erased from history again.
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Activist and organizer Je’Kendria Trahan (she/they) is using healing, conjuring, and organizing as a means to catalyze personal, collective, and political transformation and revolution in Washington, D.C. and beyond.
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Alexis McKenney (she/her/hers) believes knowing, centering, and acknowledging the long and rich legacy of Black activism––particularly, Black women’s activism––in D.C. should be central to organizers’ praxis.
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Quartice Robinson (she/her/hers) is happy to find queer community and family at Fayetteville State University.
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Genderqueer activist, organizer, and environmentalist Eva Dickerson (they/theirs/she/hers) wants more than just LGBTQ+ representation at HBCUs––they want gender equity and gender justice
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For Keri Gray (she/her/hers), loving her Black disabled womanhood is not just a radical declaration to the world––it is radical reclamation of self.
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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka (she/her/hers) was almost kicked out of a community clinic for breastfeeding her newborn baby. After such an unbelievable experience, Sangodele-Ayoka turned her anger into action by co-founding Black Breastfeeding Week and standing in the gap for Black people who breast and chest feed.
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Ivorian-American women’s rights activist Stephanie Kimou (she/her/hers) was tired of African women being overlooked in the historical and contemporary white spaces of domination in the international development sector. So, she decided to do something about it.
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