Rashad Robinson

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Rashad Robinson was born on October 13, 1978. He is a highly respected civil rights leader and human rights advocate, a blogger, author, and current executive director of Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.

Background

Rashad Robinson was born in Riverhead, Long Island, to Everett Robinson, a tile contractor and entrepreneur, and Shirley Robinson, a homemaker and business owner. Robinson attended Riverhead High School, and hosted a news talk shown on Cablevision’s public access channel. Following graduation in 1997, he enrolled at Marymount University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. As a student at Marymount, Robinson served as student body president during his junior and senior years. He also interned for former Congressmen Michael Forbes, following the representative’s switch to the Democratic Party.

Following college, Rashad Robinson held leadership positions at a number of social justice advocacy organizations, including as national field director at FairVote (formerly known as the Center For Voting and Democracy), and at the Right to Vote Campaign, a national collaborative of seven major civil rights groups, including the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, People for the American Way, and the American Civil Liberties Union. The Right to Vote Campaign worked to bring an end to voter disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions.

Rashad became the senior director of media programs at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), and went to work spearheading the development of GLAAD’s Media Field Strategy division, which has helped build a communications infrastructure within movement organizations, and provided strategic media support, trainings, and message development in states across the country, supporting successful initiatives to change public opinion and policy.

In 2011, Rashad Robinson became the executive director of Color of Change. As a force driven by over one million members, Color of Change moves decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people and all people.

“At Color of Change, I get to provide the opportunity for our members—and the community at large—to leverage their voices in order to bring about real change. Every single day we hear and see the voices and stories of those that want to be heard and counted,” Robinson told the Ubuntu Biography Project. “At Color of Change, we take moments that exist in the world and provide opportunities for those folks to be part of movements for change.” He says he is “inspired by how we accomplish civil rights work, not only through changing public policy, but also by advancing long-term culture change.”

According to the organization, “…under Rashad’s leadership, Color of Change has developed winning strategies to change the written and unwritten rules of many fields affecting Black people’s lives: forcing over 100 corporations to stop funding the secretive, right-wing policy shop ALEC; framing net neutrality as a major civil rights issue to win a free and open Internet; ending the network fun of shows inaccurately portraying and dehumanizing Black people, such as COPS and the Glenn Beck show; eliminating voter intimidation tactics from the right-wing playbook; and holding local authorities accountable for their abuses by winning justice for Black people hurt or killed by anti-Black violence. Rashad is committed to advancing the power, freedom and wellbeing of Black workers, students, families, farmers, immigrants and others, wherever their freedom is limited or threatened.”

Robinson has appeared in hundreds of news stories, interviews, political discussions, and as an op-end author in media outlets including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, BET, NPR, “The Root,” “The New York Times,” the “Los Angeles Times” and “The Huffington Post.” He was selected as one of “EBONY” magazine’s Power 100 honorees for 2015, and for the past six years. “The Root” has named Robinson to The Root 100 list of influential African Americans under 45. In 2015, Fast Company named Color of Change the 6th Most Innovative Company in the world; in 2016, the Stanford Social Innovation Review profiled Color Of Change’s strategies for “pursuing the fight for racial justice at Internet speed” in both online and offline venues.

Robinson is the proud recipient of awards from several organizations, including ADCOLOR and Center for Community Change, and serves on the boards of Demos and the Hazen Foundation. He is adjunct faculty at the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.[1]

#guaranteedincome

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Nikema Williams January 16 2021.

Live now at facebook.com/EconomicSecPro…, join Amir Farokhi, Nikema Williams, Rashad Robinson, Dorian Warren, Michael Tubbs, and more calling for a #guaranteedincome to make real #MLK 's vision to meet the Fierce Urgency of Now!

OrgUp Presents: Rashad Robinson

Liberation Road January 13 2021.

OrgUp Presents: Rashad Robinson.

Color of Change President Rashad Robinson joins Organizing Upgrade editors and guests in a conversation made more urgent by the events of the past week. Tune in Wed., January 13, at 5pm PT/8pm ET to explore how we can turn this country's racial justice majority into a governing majority.

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With Max Elbaum Organizing Upgrade, Purvi Shah (Movement Law Lab, founder of Law for Black Lives), Isaac Ontiveros Labor organizer health sector, Jayanni Webster (Organizing Upgrade, national organizer Right to the City).

Audience contributors included Sam Texeira, Jeanie Dooha, Sepia Coleman, Teresa Wildman Wilke, Mario Galvan.

Black Futures in Politics

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Black to the Future Action Fund, 2020 Alicia Garza Black to the Future, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Latosha Brown Black Votes Matter, Rashad Robinson Color of Change, Angela Rye Impact Strategies, Glynda Carr Higher Heights, Derrick Johnson NAACP, Nse Ufot New Georgia Project, Michael Harriot The Root.com.

Take Back the American Dream Conference 2011

Rashad Robinson Color of Change was one of the 158 speakers who addressed the Take Back the American Dream Conference 2011 . The Conference was hosted by the Institute for Policy Studies, and Democratic Socialists of America dominated Campaign for America's Future, [2]

"The 99% Spring"

Individuals and organizations supporting The 99% Spring, as of April 20, 2012, included Rashad Robinson - Color of Change .[3]

"Serious costs of racist policymaking"

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In 2020 Rockwood Leadership Institute alumni Heather McGhee and Rashad Robinson joined Rep. Ayanna Pressley for for a discussion about the serious costs of racist policymaking and more...

"The Tulsa Massacre at 100"

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In March 2020 Rockwood Leadership Institute alumnus Rashad Robinson joined Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee and Senator Elizabeth Warren for "The Tulsa Massacre at 100: A Conversation on Finding Resolution".

National Leading From the Inside Out Alum

Rashad Robinson, Executive Officer, Color of Change, was a 2012 Rockwood Leadership Institute National Leading From the Inside Out Alum.[4]

Retail Justice Alliance Steering Committee

As of 2015 the Retail Justice Alliance Steering Committee included;[5]

Meeting on Community Organizing

A "Meeting on Community Organizing, Civic Participation & Racial Justice" - organized by the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity December 2011, Washington, DC.

Attendees

Funder Briefing on Policing Reform

January 2016, Communities United for Police Reform held a Funder Briefing on Policing Reform – Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement, New York .

Communities United for Policing Reform (CPR) has played a critical role in leading a campaign to pass landmark police accountability legislation in New York City and partnering with families of New Yorkers killed by police to secure executive action by Governor Cuomo to establish a special prosecutor for police killings throughout New York State.

Speakers were;

Black Futures Lab Strategic Advisors

Black Futures Lab Strategic Advisors, April 24 2018;[8]

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References

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  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Our Future website: Take Back the American Dream 2011 Speakers (accessed on Sept. 22, 2011)
  3. ↑ THE 99% Spring, Who are we/ accessed April 20, 2012
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ↑ Justice Alliance, who we are
  6. ↑ Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
  7. ↑ Jan 2016, Funders for Justice.orgWatch Now: Funder Briefing on Policing Reform – Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement
  8. ↑ [3]
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