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Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza is special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is an organizer, writer and freedom dreamer based in Oakland, CA. In 2013, Alicia co-founded #BlackLivesMatter, an international organizing network developed after the murder of Trayvon Martin, focused on combating anti-Black racism in all of its forms.

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Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.

"Unless we can transform our anger into love and compassion, we won’t see the change we all desperately seek."