Ejeris Dixon is a Black Queer Feminist organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements.
They are the Executive Director of Vision Change Win Consulting (www.visionchangewin.com) where they partner with organizations to build their capacity and deepen the impact of their organizing strategies. They also serve as a consultant with Roadmap Consulting (www.roadmapconsulting.org) a national social justice consulting team.
From 2010 - 2013 Ejeris served as the Deputy Director in charge of the Community Organizing Department at the New York City Anti-Violence Project where she directed national, statewide, and local organizing and advocacy initiatives on hate violence, domestic violence, police violence, and sexual violence. From 2005 - 2010 Ejeris worked as the Founding Program Coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective at the Audre Lorde Project where they worked on creating transformative justice strategies to address hate and police violence.
They are the co-editor of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, which was released in early 2020 by AK Press. Her essay, "Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation," is featured in the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. Their writings and analysis have been featured in Truthout, New York Times, Huffington Post, SPIN Magazine, CNN, the New Civil Rights Movement, the New York Post, NY1, and Citylimits.
In 2012 the White House recognized Ejeris as both an Emerging LGBT Leader and selected them as a featured speaker on violence against Black LGBT communities. They received a Bachelor’s Degree in African American Studies at Yale University and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Nonprofit Management at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.
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