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Kayla Reed

panelist/speaker July 15, 2024

Kayla Reed (she/her) is a Black, queer feminist organizer and strategist from St. Louis, Missouri. Kayla is the co-founder and Executive Director of Action St. Louis and Action St. Louis Power Project, grassroots racial justice organizations founded after the 2014 Ferguson Uprising that work to build Black political power. Kayla is also a lead strategist in the Movement for Black Lives, where she co-founded the Electoral Justice Project (EJP), a national campaign of the Movement for Black Lives that seeks to challenge electoral injustice, expand and mobilize the Black electorate, and strengthen the capacity of Black-led organizations building power across the U.S.

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