One-on-One with Alicia Garza

Description

The co-founder of Black Futures Lab on building a movement, what representation looks like and how our communities and country can be anti-racist.

This event was recorded as part of The 2020 Texas Tribune Festival that took place virtually Sept. 1-30, 2020. You’re welcome to watch here or share this link with your friends and colleagues to watch it on demand anytime. This session was recorded on Sept. 3 and aired on Sept. 4.

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Purchase Alicia Garza’s latest book "The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart” in our Festival book store here.

Speakers

Alicia Garza

Co-Founder of Black Futures Lab

Garza is the co-founder of Black Futures Lab, Black Lives Matter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international project to end state violence against Black people. She is also the co-founder of Supermajority, an organization for women’s activism. Garza serves as the strategy and partnerships director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance and hosts the politics and pop culture podcast “Lady Don't Take No.”

Moderator

Josie Duffy Rice

President of The Appeal and Host of the “Justice in America” Podcast

Rice heads The Appeal, a news organization covering criminal justice in America. She also co-hosts the podcast “Justice in America” and is a senior strategist at The Justice Collaborative. Previously, she covered criminal justice issues at the Daily Kos, and she is a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Seven Scribes. Her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate and The Atlantic.