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Founder, Fair Fight; former Georgia House Minority Leader · Atlanta
Stacey Abrams served as Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, the first Black person and the first woman to …
Principal, Black Futures Lab; co-founder, Black Lives Matter · Oakland
Alicia Garza is one of three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter network, founded in 2013 with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi following the acquittal …
Postpartum doula & return-to-work coach · Atlanta
Aminata Ndiaye is the founder and CEO of Karangue, a Dakar-based fintech company building mobile-money infrastructure for francophone West Africa. Karangue operates payment rails and …
Author, Bad Feminist, Hunger; contributing writer, New York Times · Los Angeles
Dr. Roxane Gay is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist, published by Harper Perennial in 2014; the memoir Hunger: …
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic; author of Negroland · New York
Margo Jefferson is the author of the memoir Negroland: A Memoir, published by Pantheon Books in 2015, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award …
VP Engineering at Flutterwave · ex-Stripe · Lagos
Dr. Amara Okonkwo is currently VP of Engineering at Flutterwave, the pan-African payments infrastructure company headquartered in Lagos. Her engineering organization spans Lagos, Nairobi, Cape …
Novelist and filmmaker; author of Nervous Conditions · Harare
Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of the novels Nervous Conditions, published by The Women's Press in 1988, the first novel published by a Black Zimbabwean …
Associate Professor, Rutgers; author, Eloquent Rage · New Brunswick
Dr. Brittney Cooper is Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University, with a secondary appointment in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. …
Writer, director, executive producer; author of Redefining Realness · Los Angeles
Janet Mock is the author of the memoirs Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, published by Atria Books in …
Clinical psychologist · Harare / Cape Town
Dr. Tariro Moyo is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Atlanta and a parallel teaching appointment at Spelman College, where she teaches in …
Creator, writer, producer; founder, Hoorae Media · Los Angeles
Issa Rae is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO comedy series Insecure (2016-2021); the author of the memoir The Misadventures of Awkward Black …
Artist, abolitionist organizer; co-founder, Black Lives Matter · Los Angeles
Patrisse Cullors is an artist, abolitionist organizer, and one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter network. She is the author of When …