Asha Ransby Sporn
Asha Ransby Sporn is a Chicago activist. National Organizing Co Chair at BYP 100. Daughter of Barbara Ransby.
She is a Chicago-based community organizer and writer who has led on both winning issue-based and political campaigns, built movement organizations, and is deeply committed to Black, left social movements.
She was a co-founder of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), served as Director of Organizing for anti-war youth organization Dissenters, co-created a citywide mass organizing campaign to Defund the Chicago Police Department, and ran the South Side field program for Brandon Johnson’s winning mayoral campaign in 2023 with United Working Families.
Asha’s writing can be found in In These Times magazine, the Chicago Reader, South Side Weekly, Truthout magazine, and Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books).[1]
Education
- Studied at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Career
- Former programs intern at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
- Worked at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
The Peopes Congress
October 2020.
Lucia Lin Grassroots Asians Rising, Asha Ransby Sporn Defund CPD Campaign, Margaret Kwateng National Green New Deal organizer at Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Monifa Bandele Movement for Black Lives.
Comrades
Asha Ransby Sporn February 18 2020 ·
— with Janae E. Bonsu, Chi Nenz, Fresco Steez DeLaflyy.
BYP 100 comrades
Asha Rosa February 18 2020 ·
— with Courtney Sebring, D'atra Jackson, Chris Bufford, Kiera Hereford.
"Morales / Shakur Center" student suspensions event
On October 28, 2013, a City College administrator suspended Tafadar Sourov and Khalil Vasquez, two students who led demonstrations against the administration’s illegal raid and seizure of the Guillermo Morales / Assata Shakur Community Center. The Morales / Shakur Center is a space that has existed at City College for more than 20 years and was first won in 1989 through a mass student strike and occupations throughout CUNY.
- In response to the attacks on our student leaders, students and community say: WE ARE NOT AFRAID. Repression will not end the campaign to save the Morales / Shakur Center or the broader struggle to liberate CUNY for the people. Hundreds on campus and in the community will follow their example. Any punitive measures against Taffy and Khalil will only be a lesson to the people that the CCNY administration dismisses the people’s concerns and that the people must escalate their mass actions.
- Taffy and Khalil are fighting for the people, defending the last autonomous campus space that serves the community and defending the legacy of the people’s revolutionary heroes. THE PEOPLE MUST DEFEND TAFFY AND KHALIL. The people cannot stand aside and look as the City College administration attempts to isolate them and promote fake sellout student leaders who want to negotiate away the Center. The Center was won through struggle and will be reclaimed through struggle.
Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee organized a meeting in Edgewater, 160 Convent Avenue,New York, Friday 8 November 2013, to organize resistance. Those indicating their willingness to attend on the Whenever website included Asha Rosa.[2]