Beyond Identity: A Gendered Platform for Scholar Activists

03/09/2022

Join us TOMORROW!!!

10/29/2021

Please join us next Monday, Nov. 1st 4:30 EST for "From Academia to Public Policy: Research Justice & Scholar Activism in Practice".

Dr. Andrew Jolivétte, Senior Ford Fellow and author and editor of Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change, will be in conversation with Dr. Chinyere Oparah, Provost of the University of San Francisco, discussing research justice within the university and beyond.

02/16/2021

THIS EVENING! (5:30-7:30 EST) We hope you can join us!

FEB 16th 5:30-7:30🗓

In collaboration with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the Beyond Identity Scholar-Activist Program is proud to present a new seminar series entitled Incubating the Resistance. This first panel discussion—”Our Struggles are Inherently Intertwined”: Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America—brings together esteemed activists at the forefront of organizing for reproductive justice, immigrant rights, criminal justice reform, and racial justice to discuss cross-movement coalition building in the wake of Trump’s presidency and the Capital Hill Riots. Join us as we discuss the current sociopolitical terrain and parse out connections and root causes between what have been treated as seemingly disparate movements in broader national discourse.

EVENTBRITE Link in the Bio! ✨

02/13/2021

FEB 16th 5:30-7:30🗓

In collaboration with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the Beyond Identity Scholar-Activist Program is proud to present a new seminar series entitled Incubating the Resistance. This first panel discussion—”Our Struggles are Inherently Intertwined”: Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America—brings together esteemed activists at the forefront of organizing for reproductive justice, immigrant rights, criminal justice reform, and racial justice to discuss cross-movement coalition building in the wake of Trump’s presidency and the Capital Hill Riots. Join us as we discuss the current sociopolitical terrain and parse out connections and root causes between what have been treated as seemingly disparate movements in broader national discourse.

EVENTBRITE Link in the Bio! ✨

02/13/2021

In collaboration with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the Beyond Identity Scholar-Activist Program is proud to present a new seminar series entitled Incubating the Resistance. This first panel discussion—”Our Struggles are Inherently Intertwined”: Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America—brings together esteemed activists at the forefront of organizing for reproductive justice, immigrant rights, criminal justice reform, and racial justice to discuss cross-movement coalition building in the wake of Trump’s presidency and the Capital Hill Riots. Join us as we discuss the current sociopolitical terrain and parse out connections and root causes between what have been treated as seemingly disparate movements in broader national discourse.

EVENTBRITE Link in the Bio! ✨

02/13/2021

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER✨

Fahd Ahmed, J.D, Executive Director of Desis Rising and Moving Up (DRUM) will be joining for a discussion entitled “Our Struggles are Inherently Intertwined”: Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America. Learn more about Fahd below! 🌟 Link in the bio 💫

Fahd Ahmed, J.D came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant from Pakistan in 1991. He has been a grassroots organizer on the issues of racial profiling, immigrant justice, police accountability, and national security over the last 13 years. Fahd attended Vanderbilt University as an undergraduate, and went to the CUNY School of Law. Fahd has been involved with DRUM in various capacities since 2000, when he had family members facing deportation, and entrapment as part of the War on Drugs. Within DRUM, Fahd co-led the work with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian immigrant detainees before, and immediately after 9/11, by coordinating the detainee visitation program. Over the last 3 years, as the Legal and Policy Director at DRUM, Fahd ran the End Racial Profiling Campaign and brought together the coalitions working on Muslim surveillance, and stop and frisk, to work together to pass the landmark Community Safety Act. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the National Campaign on Surveillance and Use of Informants, which is housed out of DRUM.
Fahd was a recipient of the Haywood Burns Fellowship from the National Lawyers Guild, and served as an Ella Baker intern at the Center for Constitutional Rights. In addition to DRUM, Fahd worked as a legal consultant with the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana on documenting and reforming policies of juvenile detention center in Louisiana. Fahd also worked as a lecturer and researcher on Islamophobia, national security, and social movements at the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He was also a Human Rights and National Security Reform Fellow with the Rockwood Leadership Institute, and a Fellow with the American Muslim Civil Leadership Institute.

02/13/2021

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER ✨

Nana Gyamfi, J.D., Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) will be joining us Feb 16th for discussion entitled “Our Struggles are Inherently Intertwined” : Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America. Learn more about Nana Below ! 🌟 Nana Gyamfi, J.D is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), the larges Black-led social justice organization representing the nearly 10 million Black immigrants, refugees, and families living in the U.S. A Movement attorney for the past 25 years, Nana is co-founder of Justice Warriors 4 Black Lives and Human Rights Advocacy, both dedicated to fighting for human rights and Black liberation. She has served as the Executive Director of Black Women's Forum (an organization co-founded by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who serves as its President), and is a former professor in the Pan African Studies Department at California State University Los Angeles. Nana has long been a sought after voice for legal and political insight into issues affecting Black communities and has repeat appearances in documentaries and other media, including Tales of the Grim Sleeper and Democracy Now! With AmyGoodman.

02/13/2021

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER ✨

Nana Gyamfi, J.D., Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) will be joining us Feb 16th for discussion entitled “Our Struggles are Inherently Intertwined” : Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America. Learn more about Nana Below ! 🌟 Nana Gyamfi, J.D is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), the larges Black-led social justice organization representing the nearly 10 million Black immigrants, refugees, and families living in the U.S. A Movement attorney for the past 25 years, Nana is co-founder of Justice Warriors 4 Black Lives and Human Rights Advocacy, both dedicated to fighting for human rights and Black liberation. She has served as the Executive Director of Black Women's Forum (an organization co-founded by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who serves as its President), and is a former professor in the Pan African Studies Department at California State University Los Angeles. Nana has long been a sought after voice for legal and political insight into issues affecting Black communities and has repeat appearances in documentaries and other media, including Tales of the Grim Sleeper and Democracy Now! With AmyGoodman.

02/13/2021

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER✨
Alejandra Pablos, esteemed Reproductive Justice and Migrant Rights Activist, will be joining us Feb 16th for a discussion entitled -“Our Struggles are Inherently Intertwined”: Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America. Learn more about Alejandra below !🌟

Alejandra Pablos is reproductive justice community organizer and storyteller at the intersections of penal and immigration, in deportation proceedings. On December 11th 2018 she was ordered deported by an immigration judge and is appealing that decision. Alongside of community members, and her deportation defense team, they are creating strategies to keep fighting the deportation machine in Arizona. Alejandra case first went viral when she was re-detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement for 43 days. She was granted bond and brought home after communities nationwide organized to bring her home. Since 2011, she has worked to advocate for human and civil rights, dedicating her life to organizing for immigrant rights and reproductive justice. Alejandra is a WeTestify Abortion storyteller, Mijente member & works with immigrant rights & prison abolition organizers throughout the country.

02/10/2021

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER ✨
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, Former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at the Movement for Black Lives will be joining us Feb 16th for a discussion entitled- “Our Movements are Inherently Intertwined”: Technologies of Oppression in Post Trump America. Learn more about Lumumba below! 🌟

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is a father, husband, and longtime community organizer and educator from Central Brooklyn. Lumumba is the former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at The Movement for Black Lives. From 1994 – 1998 Lumumba served as programming coordinator at the Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCC). During his tenure at CCC, he also co-found Azabache, an organizers training conference and workshop series for young activists. All the while as a Black Studies Major at City College of NY/CUNY. He went on to receive his Masters in Human Service from Lincoln University in 1998. As a member and organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Mr. Akinwole-Bandele helped establish its campaign to counter police abuse and misconduct. He also co-founded the world renowned Black August Hip Hop Project. Black August raises awareness and support for political prisoners in the United States. From 2002 to 2007 Lumumba served as a counselor and lecturer at Medgar Evers College/CUNY. Fall 2019, Lumumba taught an Introduction to Ethnic Studies course at San Francisco State University. Lumumba continues to teach his community organizing class as an adjunct lecturer within the City University of New York. From 2011 to 2020, he served as the Director of Community Organizing at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Lumumba currently sits on two boards, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute.