Geo Borden, 23 |
Black Honduran, cisgender woman, androgynous, queer, living in New York, low income, bachelor’s degree, spiritual and non-religious. Did not disclose ability status. |
Former student activist, artivist, teacher, scholar-activist, engages in social media-based activism |
Lauren Chapple, 30 |
Black and a quarter German, cisgender woman, straight, living in North Dakota, middle class but feels like a “broke grad student,” graduate student, atheist, vision impairment. |
Student activist, scholar-activist, spacemaker, started #updateyourstereotypes campaign |
Michael Conigan, 30 |
Black, cisgender man, straight, from Illinois, working class, believes in God and is seeking answers on spirituality. Did not disclose education level or ability status. |
Mentor, neighborhood activist, supports the “village” |
Michael Cunningham, 50 |
Black, cisgender man, gay, from Washington, D.C., working middle class, graduate degree. Did not disclose spirituality or ability status. |
Scholar-activist, engages in institutional level campus-based activism, mentor |
Laina Dawes, 40s |
Black, cisgender woman, straight, living in Ontario, raised middle class but feels like a “broke graduate student,” graduate student, agnostic. Did not disclose ability status. |
Scholar-activist, artivist/author, mentor, spacemaker for girls |
Erika Dawkins, 29 |
Black, cisgender woman, straight, from Louisiana, middle-class, graduate degree, Christian and “more spiritual than religious,” full-figured. |
“Coach,” mentor, spacemaker for Black teenage women |
Micah McCreary, 60 |
Black, cisgender man, straight, from Michigan, upper middle class, graduate degree, Christian, has anxiety and PTSD. |
Practices institutional level activism as co-pastor of a church and president of a theological seminary, organizer |
Aaron Moore, 35 |
Black, cisgender man, straight, from Illinois, middle class, altered gait, PTSD. Religion/spirituality and level of education was not disclosed. |
Leader of S.A.F.E. Rockford (saferockford.org), community- and youth-focused activist |
Michael Quess? Moore, 35 |
Black, cisgender man, straight, from New York, lower-class income, graduate degree (described as “two pieces of paper”), spiritual and non-religious, has manic depression, social anxiety, and PTSD. |
Organizer with Take Em Down Nola (@takeemdownnola or takeemdownnola.org), artivist/poet |
Michelle Antoinette Nelson, 35 |
Black, gender fluid woman, androgynous, lesbian, living in Maryland, middle class, “educated,” spiritual and non-religious. Did not disclose ability status. |
Founder of Brown and Healthy (@BrownandHealthy on Twitter and Instagram), artivist/poet, spacemaker |
Elena Stoodley, 32 |
Black Haitian, cisgender woman, straight, from Montreal, very low income, spiritual and non-religious. Did not disclose education level or ability status. |
Organizer, community activist, artivist, spacemaker, engages in physical resistance efforts |
Lamin Swann, 38 |
Black, cisgender man, straight, living in Kentucky, middle to upper middle-class income, some college, agnostic, cerebral palsy, has used wheelchair for 25 years. |
Practices social media-based activism, organizing, participates in protests, coalition-building |