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The Frontline 40

5 min readJun 10, 2022

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We are excited to unveil THE FRONTLINE 40, a list of incredible frontline leaders who have been doing amazing work organizing for justice and liberation in the US and around the globe. Join us in celebrating and supporting people who bring care and relief to our communities, and yet so often do not get the recognition they rightly deserve.

For the month of June, The Frontline will be amplifying and honoring these frontline leaders and their work.

Aisha K Hauser

Aisha is a LOUD TALKER, as faith leader, author and advocate of equity and justice, she has made waves calling out bullshit in all its forms, even nicknamed “Purveyor of Joyful Shitstorms.” Along with working to dismantle institutional racism, Aisha LOVES to teach, train and talk about healthy sexuality!

alejandra pablos

Alejandra Pablos is a reproductive justice community organizer and storyteller at the intersections of mass incarceration and immigration. She shares her abortion story and her experience with the incarceration to deportation pipeline as an act of resistance in order to bring more awareness to the harms of stigma and criminalization.

Arekia S. Bennett-Scott

Arekia S. Bennett-Scott is the Executive Director of the only youth led, civic engagement organization in Mississippi, Mississippi Votes. To date, MS Votes has engaged more than half of Mississippi’s growing electorate and registered over 30,000 new voters through their youth civic engagement programs and cutting edge field and digital organizing strategies.

Arturo Reyes III

Art Reyes III founded We The People Michigan, where he works to build multi-racial, working-class organizing power. He grew up in Flint, MI and hails from three generations of proud UAW members, who taught him to fight for dignity for working-class people. Most importantly, he’s the proud dad of Emilio.

Ash Williams

Ash Williams (he/him) is a Black non-binary transfemme from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Since 2012, Ash’s work has included theorizing dance and performance art as tools for understanding bodies and corporeality within The Movement for Black Lives; leading rapid response and guerilla actions, particularly as an architect of Charlotte Uprising, which followed the muder of Keith Lamont Scott; and abolitionist organizing at the intersections of gender justice, racial justice, reproductive justice

Bukky Ojeifo

“Bukky Ojeifo is the Senior Manager, Global Culture & Community at Twitter. In her role, Bukky is responsible for guiding how Twitter amplifies and engages with the underrepresented communities that use the service. With more than a decade of experience in community building and cultural marketing, Bukky has stepped into her position supporting and driving strategy for initiatives that ensure the connectedness, inclusion and support of historically marginalized communities on Twitter. “

Cazembe Murphy Jackson

Cazembe Murphy Jackson is a Black, Southern, queer, trans organizer. He believes in working across movements using a multi-tiered approach to ending systemic oppression. Cazembe is a commitment to loving himself so deeply that others are inspired to love themselves just as deeply. He is the Membership Organizer for The Rising Majority. He lives in Atlanta, GA.

Chanelle Elaine

Chanelle Elaine is a Social Impact Producer, working in community with filmmakers, activists and philanthropists committed to cultural transformation. Founder of CreativeBionics and Kashif, Chanelle has produced videos for the Black Feminist Fund, The Grantmakers for Girls of Color, Novo, Ford, and Surdna Foundation, and President Obama’s Tribal Nation’s conferences.

Coumba Toure

Coumba Toure is a writer, storyteller, loving mother, a sister, and a daughter born and raised between Mali and Senegal. She publishes children’s stories, organizes children’s art events, and designs education programs. Coumba is the board chair of TrustAfrica and the Baobab Center, the co-coordinator of Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity, she is also a member of the African Feminist Forum and the Per Ankh writers collective. Coumba has also worked with organizations such as the Inst

Dash Harris Machado

Dash is a multi-media producer, creator, writer, consultant, doula and coach. Co-founder of AfroLatinx Travel, producer of NEGRO: A docu-series about Latino Identity and part of Radio Cana Negra, a collective of three Black Central American women who produce a podcast and offer trainings and workshops around AntiBlackness among Latines.

Diana Berrent

Diana Berrent is the Founder of Survivor Corps, the world’s largest Covid movement providing education and resources for Covid-19 patients, connecting them with medical and scientific research efforts, and helping with the national Covid response. Survivor Corps is the Peace Corps of the Covid generation. Diana splits her time between Washington, DC and Los Angeles.

Drew Dixon

Drew Dixon guided the recording of iconic hits by Mary J. Blige, Method Man, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Santana, Estelle, Kanye West and others. In 2017 she came forward as a survivor of rape and sexual harassment in the MeToo movement. Drew is now writing and producing music and television.

Erica Malunguinho

Erica Malunguinho é educadora e ativista cultural. Mestra em Estética e História da Arte, Embaixadora do Museu de Arte Negra (MAN) — idealizado por Abdias Nascimento, Membra da Comissão de Direitos Humanos, da Comissão do Conselho de Ética e procuradora da Procuradoria da Mulher, tornou-se a primeira deputada trans eleita no Brasil, em 2018, com mais de 55 mil votos no estado de São Paulo.

Gabe Tobias

Gabe co-founded Movement School and was senior advisor at Justice Democrats, helping elect Reps. Bowman, Bush, and Ocasio-Cortez. He cut his organizing teeth at ACORN and spent a decade working for non-profits overseas. Despite living in Brooklyn, he does not have a podcast.

Hillary Holley

Hillary Holley, a proud Georgia native who has never lived outside of the state, has dedicated over half of her 30 years working in Georgia’s Movement spaces. Hillary worked on Stacey Abrams’ historic 2018 gubernatorial campaign to help ensure Movement strategies and collaboration was embedded in the campaign. After 2018, Hillary remained working for Abrams through her voting rights organization Fair Fight Action. For nearly 4 years, Hillary served as the Director of Organizing and Strategic Adv

Jaelynn Scott

“Jaelynn Scott, M.Div., is the Executive Director of Lavender Rights Project. Lavender Rights Project offers holistic, wrap-around care and legal services for LGBTQ persons and especially Black Trans people. Jaelynn provides leadership in the community and with nonprofit organizations as they work to center Black life and especially Black trans life in their mission and organizational structure. She has helped religious organizations and nonprofits radically reimagine policies and procedures as

Janvieve Williams Comrie

“Janvieve Williams Comrie is the founder and current Executive Director of AfroResistance. AfroResistance is committed to educating and organizing for human rights, democracy and racial justice throughout the Americas. Janvieve is also an Associate Professor at The New School and at NYU. She is a Certified Professional Racial Equity Diversity Coach. She is a mother to two amazing children and lives with her life partner, and helps take care of her parents between The Bronx and Panama. “

Jasmen Rogers

Jasmen Rogers (she/her) is a queer, Black Floridian at the intersection of race and gender policy. Given the titles “verbal assassin” and “coalition magician,” Jasmen creates ways to build Black women’s political capital. In her spare time, Jasmen serves on several community boards, spends too much time in Target, and marvels through travel with her fianceé and pup.

Jasmine Burnett

Jasmine Burnett work in the world designs, sets and activates agendas for people leading on the most criminalized issues in the world. As a leader in the Reproductive Justice movement, she activates this framework as a tool to map human rights into the consciousness of our world. Through her boutique consulting firm, Blkfeminst Advisors LLC, they design customized tools for the unique circumstances of peacekeeping. You can find Jasmine repping “Black Folks Like Us” in the mighty midwest.

June Moses

My name is June, like the month, Moses, like the Bible. I am the proud president of the West 135th Street Apartments Tenant Association Inc. We are ten buildings with over 1000 beautiful people living in the heart of Central Harlem on 135th Street. I believe that housing is and should be a human right, but until that day arrives, I want to ensure that my people are organized and educated on the ways to push for that goal in all ways reasonably possible.

Leslie E Redmond

Leslie E. Redmond, Esq. is a leading activist, civil rights advocate, and public speaker. Leslie is a racial equity consultant who helps transform individuals and corporations when they are ready to challenge the status quo and move from compassionate complainers to Activators. At the then age of 25, she became the youngest President of Minneapolis NAACP. She is also the founder of ‘Don’t Complain, Activate’ and the Minneapolis Community Healing Team. She is the host of Don’t Complain, Activate

Lindsay Allison Love

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 10 years of experience. I own a private practice, TherapyLuv, PLLC and currently serve as a board member for Chandler Unified School District. I center race, an LGBT affirming lens and fat liberation in my work. I’m a chic systems disrupter.

lola n’sangou

lola n’sangou (pronounced Sango), Is a life long south phoenix resident, displaced by over a decade in prison, still working toward truly coming home after her release in 2014. As a formerly incarcerated community organizer, Lola established Mass Liberation Arizona as an abolitionist political home for other Black liberation focused and directly impacted people to build political power in Arizona.

Lucia Dominique Pascale Solages

Pascale Solages is a Haitian feminist and political activist. Her work has focused for 14 years on advocacy and actions for the promotion, respect and advancement of women’s and girls’ rights in Haiti. She is the co-founder and general coordinator of the Haitian feminist organization NÈGÈS MAWON. She is also a co-founding member of the collective of committed citizens “NOU PAP DÒMI” (We do not sleep) for social change, against corruption and impunity in Haiti.

Megan Rose Dickey

Megan Rose Dickey is the Chief Content Officer at Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in underestimated founders. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, she spent more than a decade reporting on diversity, equity and inclusion in the tech industry at a variety of publications, including Protocol, TechCrunch and Business Insider.

Mia Birdsong

Mia Birdsong is a pathfinder, author, and facilitator who steadily engages the leadership and wisdom of people experiencing injustice to chart new visions of American life. Mia is the founding Executive Director of Next River: an institute for practicing the future, and a Senior Fellow of the Economic Security Project.

Michelle Colon

Michelle Colón is a lifelong grass roots, social justice activist and organizer, entrenched in the battlefields fighting for abortion rights, access and justice. She has been organizing throughout Mississippi fighting restrictive reproductive health legislation for over two decades, having worked the halls of the Capitol, outside and inside MS’s only abortion clinic; organizing large scale demonstrations, civic engagement events, major fundraising efforts and combating anti-abortion terrorists.

Mikaela Loach

Mikaela Loach is a Jamaican-British climate justice activist, co-host of The Yikes Podcast, writer and medical student. She is one of three claimants who took the UK government to court to challenge the subsidies and tax breaks the industry is given to oil & gas companies in the North Sea.

Monica Simpson

Singer and spoken word artist Monica Raye Simpson is both the executive director of SisterSong: The National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective — as well as the creator of Artists United for Reproductive Justice at SisterSong. Simpson is a queer, Black, North Carolina native and has spent most of her career as an organizer fighting against systemic violence for southern Black women and LBGTQ people.

Monique Teal

Monique (she/her/hers) is a Senior Campaign Director at Daily Kos, where she harnesses the power of the internet for the public good. She currently resides in Tennessee, and in her downtime you will probably find her baking, swimming, or enjoying time with loved ones.

Nayyirah Shariff

Nayyirah (they/them) works at the intersection of public health and enviornmental justice as the director of Flint Rising, a base building water justice organization organization formed in the aftermath of lead in water emergency declarations in Flint, Michigan. They have been featured in a number documentaries about the Flint Water Crisis and reparations needed for a just recovery. When they are not defending democracy and fighting for the human right to water, Nayyirah enjoys cooking vegan foo

Nikki Grant

Nikki is a queer Black feminist, abolitionist, daughter of working-class Jamaican immigrants, and movement lawyer. She is a co-founder of Amistad Law Project, a board member of the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA, and a leader in the criminal legal system reform and alternatives to policing movements in Philadelphia.

Omisade Burney-Scott

Omisade Burney-Scott is a 7th generation post-menopausal social justice advocate and creative. She has spent the better part of the past 25 years of her life focused on the liberation of marginalized people through advocacy work, philanthropy, and cultural organizing. Omisade is also the creator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia narrative shift project engaged in normalizing menopause and midlife

Paris Hatcher

Paris Hatcher is a Black, queer visionary feminist who has been organizing individuals and organizations toward liberation at the local, national, and international level for twenty years. Currently, she is the founder and Director of Black Feminist Future, a national Black feminist organization that amplifies and builds the power of Black feminist leaders, organizations and movements. In this capacity, Paris also serves on the leadership team at the Movement for Black Lives. Paris has also work

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Qiana Mestrich

Qiana Mestrich is a photography-focused interdisciplinary artist, educator, historian, writer and mother based in New York. Mestrich is the founder of Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History (est. 2007), an arts initiative that aims to decolonize the medium by advocating for Black, Indigenous and other photographers of color. Dodge & Burn began as a blog and also functioned as a monthly critique group from 2013–2022. A forthcoming book based on the blog’s past interviews with photographer

sarah huny young

sarah huny young is a photographer, artist, and curator primarily documenting and exalting Black womanhood and queer communities through portraiture and cultural events. huny is the recipient of multiple awards and grants for her advocacy and fundraising initiatives, including being named a 2021 Person of the Year by Pittsburgh City Paper.

Dr. Sarah L. Webb

Dr. Sarah L. Webb is an international speaker, consultant, and coach. She launched the global initiative Colorism Healing in 2013 to raise awareness and foster healing. Dr. Webb has been featured on numerous radio and podcast shows, Fox Soul TV, the Illinois Times, and the TEDx stage.

Sil Lai Abrams

Sil Lai Abrams is a writer, gender violence awareness activist, restorative justice advocate, and surfing enthusiast. A mother to two adult humans and a feline, she adheres to Audre Lorde’s ethos, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

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The Frontline is a joint project of the Working Families Party, The Movement for Black Lives, United We Dream, and The Rising Majority — came together after the historic uprisings of 2020 to harness the energy we saw in the streets into political power at the ballot box in the 2020 General Election and the January 2021 Georgia run-off. Since then, we have been engaging our community around issues related to: voting rights, reproductive justice, education equality, disability justice, labor unions, and more.

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