Patrisse Cullors
Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter Global Network; Founder/Chair, Dignity
and Power Now and Reform L.A. Jails
“It takes a village to heal a people. Our collectiveness will save us. I am my sibling’s keeper. Aśe ooooo.”
Biography
Artist, organizer, educator, and popular public speaker, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, founder and chair of Dignity and Power Now and Reform L.A. Jails, and author of New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. Cullors has directed and produced world renowned theater, performance pieces, and docu-series, and describes art as “an economic and spiritual engine that if used properly can and does transform the world.” As faculty director of the new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program at Arizona’s Prescott College, she will draw on her experiences to explore what impact artists could have on social justice, prison abolition, community organizing, and healing.