Darnell L Moore is a writer and activist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is a faculty member in the Africana Studies program at Vassar College. He and Patrisse Cullors were co-organizers of the Black Lives Matter Ride to Ferguson, Missouri. Darnell's writing and activism broadly examines notions of race, gender, and sexuality.

His scholarship examines the intersections of queer subjectivities and race, and queer Black Christian thought. He currently teaches courses on race and the prison industrial complex at Vassar College. Additionally, he is a founding partner, with Wade Davis II, of You Belong, an organization that offers LGBTQ and straight-allied youth a series of 3-day comprehensive sports instruction and leadership development clinics. He is a managing editor of The Feminist Wire, and his writing appears frequently in The Advocate, Ebony, The Root, Out, and many other venues.

Darnell was appointed by Mayor Cory A. Booker as the inaugural chair of the City of Newark Advisory Commission on LGBTQ Concerns. He is also co-chair of the Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories project. He was also a member of the first US delegation of LGBTQ scholars/cultural workers to the Palestinian territories. He holds an M.A. in Clinical Counseling from Eastern University and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary.


**Here's another name: ALICIA GARZA**

Alicia Garza is the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She has been the recipient of multiple awards for her organizing work in Black and Latino communities, receiving the Local Hero award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Jeanne Gauna Communicate Justice award from the Center for Media Justice in 2008. She has twice been honored by the Harvey Milk Democratic Club with the Bayard Rustin Community Activist award for her work fighting gentrification and environmental racism in San Francisco’s largest remaining Black community.

Alicia comes to NDWA after serving as Executive Director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) in San Francisco since 2009. Under her leadership, POWER won free local public transportation for youth; fought for a seat at the table in some of the most important land use decisions affecting working-class families; beat back regressive local policies targeting undocumented people; organized against the chronic police violence in Black neighborhoods; and shed light on the ongoing wave of profit-driven development that contribute to a changing San Francisco.

In 2013, Alicia co-founded #BlackLivesMatter, an online platform developed after the murder of Trayvon Martin, designed to connect people interested in learning more about and fighting back against anti-Black racism.

Alicia currently serves on the Board of Directors for the School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) in Oakland, California, and is a contributing writer for WarTimes magazine. She serves as trusted counsel for organizations across the country looking to build their capacity to lead and win organizing campaigns. When she’s not scheming on freedom, Alicia enjoys dancing, reading and writing—and scheming some more.