Brea Baker
Brea is a skilled communications strategist, influencer engagement professional, activist/organizer, and social impact advisor. She has contributed to dozens of electoral and advocacy campaigns including the 2017 Women’s March (where she served as the youngest national organizer), the 2018 student walkouts against gun violence, Jumaane Williams’ successful bid for NYC Public Advocate, and more.
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Racial and Gender Justice
Intersectionality in practice isn’t the feel good slogan we think it is? It requires centering the most marginalized in a way that’s not intuitive to our normally self-centered society. What does intersectional feminism truly look like?
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People-Powered Movement
Can encompass a wide range of issues under the umbrella of building progressive mass movements. What are the steps for more committed activists to building out campaigns that can take their work to the next level? How can we lean into populism to disrupt far-right agendas? How do we ensure our work is leader-full?
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Political Storytelling
We live in a society and world full of silos and echo chambers. In order to truly effect change we have to pause from preaching to the choir and reach those who think of themselves as neutral or actively against progressive moments. Whether you’re trying to get out of the cycle of social media arguments, trying to convince family members, or trying to tell your own story, let’s break down the anatomy of political storytelling and take on new strategies.
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Black Land Matters
This country has always been happy to see Black people working the land but rarely if ever owning it. It’s impossible to understand the 21st century racial wealth gap without first un- packing the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. Land theft has been detrimental in creating and widening the racial wealth gap, privatizing natural resources, and creating a permanent barrier to land that should be a birthright for Black and Indigenous communities. In this session I will provide a brief overview of the attack on Black ownership that spurred the Great Migration along with the current movement to reclaim that land led by Black farmers and Southerners.
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Youth Engagement and Youth Leadership
Youth political leadership is the norm, not the rule and yet young activists are treated like gimmicks. Through exploring historic and current examples of youth leadership, we’ll understand how young people can find their entry point into this work and what adults can do as allies to that work without eclipsing it.
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The State of Policing and the Case for Abolition
How did mass incarceration and over policing proliferate in this way? What is the history of expanding the carceral state and what are the opportunities for eradicating it?
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Moving Beyond Allyship
If we’re learning and growing, then we should be constantly asking ourselves how to be better allies. Whether to other racial groups or to those from other religious backgrounds (or lack thereof), we can always be doing more for those more marginalized than us and yet we tend to fall short. What should true allyship look like?
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Using culture to fuel impact and build political power
Brea Baker is a skilled communications strategist and organizer who has been working on the frontlines for over 8 years first as a student activist and now as a national and global strategist for leading changemakers. In that time, she has contributed to dozens of electoral and advocacy campaigns including the 2017 Women’s March (where she served as the youngest national organizer), the 2018 student walkouts against gun violence, Jumaane Williams’ successful bid for NYC Public Advocate, and more. Among her many hats, a core part of Brea’s work involves advising influencers, advocacy organizations, and media companies on their social impact strategies.
Brea has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University where she held internships with the U.S. Department of State, Public Defender Service DC, and served as President of Yale’s NAACP Chapter. For her work in coalition with other activists and organizers, Brea has been recognized as a 2017 Glamour Woman of the Year (Women’s March), and 2019 i-D Up and Rising. In addition, she has spoken about her work at Yale Law School, Yale School of Art, the United Nations’ Girl Up Campaign, ABC’s The View, VICE, The Hollywood Reporter, and more. She also regularly contributes with ELLE Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.
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Cheering for Black Land OwnershipExploring the history of land theft in the U.S., Brea Baker argues that the Black reparations and Indigenous Landback movements are stronger together.
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Author explores role of land ownership in poverty among Americans of color
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Making a Home on Black-Owned LandIn her new book, ‘Rooted,’ Brea Baker unpacks the legacy of land theft in America. But first, a visit to her own backyard.
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Land Theft: The Alarming Racial Wealth Gap in America TodayBrea Baker on Black Land Ownership, Historical Injustice, and the Hope for Black Americans to Own More than One Percent of the Land
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Interrogating the Criminal Justice System Through ArtArtists Russell Craig and Hank Willis Thomas and writer Brea Baker on using their creative practices to indict and reform the prison-industrial complex.
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Bridging the Gap’: Watch the Trailer and First Episode of Disney+ YouTube Series (Exclusive Video)The new web series celebrates diversity throughout Disney
