Makia Green is a queer, nonbinary, fat, Black liberation organizer who is co-chair of the Defund MPD Coalition, co-founder of Harriet’s Wildest Dreams and a former core organizer of Black Lives Matter D.C. As an organizing director with the Working Families Party, Green campaigned in 2020 to get supporters of police defunding elected to D.C. Council.
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What's Next for the Defund Movement?
Five police abolitionists from around the country—some of them newly elected to city councils—talk about lessons from 2021 and plans for 2022.
Kandace Montgomery, Robin Wonsley Worlobah, Andrew R. Hairston, Willie Burnley Jr. and Makia Green