Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Education:B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
M.F.A., University of Southern California

Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, activist and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Khan-Cullors first used the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after co-founder Alicia Garza's use of the phrase "Black Lives Matter" in a Facebook post about the Trayvon Martin case.

Khan-Cullors was born in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. A Fulbright scholar, she earned a degree in religion and philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012.

Khan-Cullors has served as executive director of the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails and co-founded the prison activism organization Dignity and Power Now. She is the author of two books.

#BlackLivesMatter, #BLM

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