Asha Ransby-Sporn is a Chicago-based organizer and writer, and a columnist for In These Times. She was a co-founder of Black Youth Project 100, where she led the groups’s national organizing program and worked on racial, economic and gender justice issues across the U.S. Asha has led and been a part of community-based campaigns that have won ballot referenda on investing in non-police mental health programs, blocked a weapons manufacturer from a multi-million dollar tax break, pressured institutions to divest from the private prison industry, and led on winning political campaigns including to elect Chicago’s union-backed mayor in 2023.
Asha is deeply committed to building power through organizing and writing about the power and complexity of social movements.
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