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Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter

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Artist, organizer, educator, and popular public speaker, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of grassroots Los Angeles based organization Dignity and Power Now. Cullors鈥 work for Black Lives Matter recently received recognition in TIME Magazine鈥檚 2020 100 Women of the Year project. Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018). She is also the Faculty Director at Arizona鈥檚 Prescott College of a new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program that she has developed. In 2019, Patrisse joined Freeform鈥檚 Good Trouble Season two as a staff writer and actor. She has continued writing for its third season. For the last 20 years, Cullors has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails鈥 鈥淵es on R鈥 campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020. Patrisse鈥檚 work to decarcerate and affirm human dignity continues as she joins The Justice Collaborative team as a Senior Advisor.