Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza is an organizer, political strategist and writer who co-founded the Black Lives Matter Global Network and founded the Black Futures Lab and Black to the Future Action Fund, which work to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the author of The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart.

She co-hosts the podcast Sunstorm with Ai-jen Poo, and her organizing career includes years of work on domestic worker rights, housing and health equity. She has been named to TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.