Patrisse Cullors

Social Activist, Best-selling Author of When They Call You A Terrorist &
Co-Creator of the Viral Twitter Hashtag and Movement, #BlackLivesMatter

Artist, organizer, educator, and popular public speaker, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder
of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of grassroots Los Angeles based organization Dignity and Power Now. She is also a senior fellow at MomsRising where she is working on ending Maternal Mortality and Morbidity.

In 2013, Patrisse co-founded the global movement with the viral twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter which has
since grown to an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world fighting anti-Black racism.
In January 2016 Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. Her memoir became an instant New York Times Bestseller.

Patrisse Cullors, is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of grassroots Los Angeles based organization, Dignity and Power Now. She is also a senior fellow at MomsRising where she is working on ending Maternal Mortality and Morbidity. In 2013, Patrisse co-founded #BlackLivesMatter, the global movement with a viral Twitter hashtag, which has since grown to an international organization with dozens of chapter around the world fighting anti-Black racism. In January 2016 Patrisse Cullors published her memoir When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. Her memoir became an instant New York Times bestseller.

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