Brea Baker: Social Justice
Activist, author and social impact strategist Brea Baker explores racial and gender justice, political storytelling and Black land ownership to help audiences connect understanding with collective action.
Quick Facts:
- Youngest national organizer of the 2017 Women’s March.
- Yale University graduate with a degree in political science.
- Former president of Yale’s NAACP chapter.
- Experience in electoral campaigns, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
- Formats:
Keynote presentations, educational sessions, panel discussions
- Audiences:
Colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups, media and entertainment professionals, cultural institutions, and leadership audiences exploring equity and social impact.
- Outcomes:
- Understand how race, gender, and other identities intersect in experiences of inequality.
- Explore approaches to community participation and collective action.
- Recognize how storytelling and historical context shape conversations about equity.
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
Keynote Topics
Potential Topics
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.
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?
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?
Talent Short Bio
Brea Baker is an activist, writer and communications strategist whose work centers Black joy, safety and community. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, where she served as president of the university’s NAACP chapter.
Her organizing experience includes serving as the youngest national organizer of the 2017 Women’s March, supporting the 2018 student walkouts against gun violence and contributing to Jumaane Williams’ successful campaign for New York City Public Advocate.
Brea is the principal of Better Stories Now, a communications firm, and previously served as Chief Equity Officer at Inspire Justice. Her writing has appeared in ELLE, Harper’s BAZAAR and Refinery29.
Her book, Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, examines her family’s history alongside the wider relationship between land, racial inequality and reparative justice. Her presentations explore intersectionality, movement building and storytelling as tools for social change.
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