>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.