Our Team

Law For Black Lives is a Black femme-led national network of over 6,000 radical lawyers and legal workers. Our staff is deeply committed to supporting the leadership of directly impacted communities and transforming the legal field to represent the values of movement lawyering, which are centered in building community power and democratizing the law.

Christian Snow 

Executive Director

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Christian Snow is a long-time resident of Chicago's west side.  Snow graduated from Grinnell College with a degree in sociology and history, and obtained her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. 

Snow most recently worked at the Illinois Justice Project (“ILJP”) as a program director. There, Snow focused on organizing policy advocates, state leaders, community-based organizations and grassroot organizers to develop and implement a shared state-wide policy agenda and strategic plan to end criminalization and incarceration and to support safe and thriving communities. Additionally, at ILJP, Snow led the juvenile justice policy portfolio partnering with organizers, advocates, and stakeholders to increase community resources for young people, eliminate the use of detention centers, educate policy makers on harmful city and state policies and possible solutions, and create space for young people and their families to advocate for their own needs. Lastly, Snow operated as a trainer and thought partner for philanthropists, policy makers, advocates, and lawyers seeking to understand the application of abolitionist values and principles to their work. 

Prior to ILJP, Snow worked as an Associate Attorney at the People’s Law Office. Snow's work there focused on assisting with civil rights cases involving police brutality and misconduct. Additionally, Snow was first an adult member, and then the Executive Director of Assata's Daughters, a Chicago grassroots abolitionist organization that trained young Black people to organize in line with the Black Radical Tradition by providing them with a political home where they receive political education, organizing training, and revolutionary support through mutual aid. Snow contributed to Assata's Daughters through strategic direction, fundraising, staff management, and program development. Snow has worked in coalition with movement organizations and collectives in Chicago and throughout the midwest by providing research assistance, legal and political education trainings, coordination, facilitation, strategic planning, and curriculum development.

Kat Walden

Membership Coordinator

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Kat Walden is a Philadelphia native now living in New Orleans. In Philly, she worked for the Petey Greene Program to provide supplemental education services to people in prisons and jails. Once in NOLA, she joined the Unanimous Jury Coalition, which overturned a Jim Crow-era law allowing non-unanimous juries to convict someone of a felony. As Program Coordinator at Operation Restoration and the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, she worked to dismantle oppressive systems and put power in the hands of people who care, hear, and represent our BIPOC communities. Kat is energized by engaging in and cultivating intentional spaces for radical movement building and thinking that fight for the rights and liberation of BIPOC communities, and ensure their humanity is always front and center. Kat graduated from Temple University with a B.S. in Human Development and Community Engagement in 2017. When she's not jamming out to Beyoncé or thinking about a beach or camping, you can find her obsessing over any and all dogs.

Bryce Larkins

Communications Coordinator

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Bryce Larkins is a multi-disciplinary audio/visual creator. He graduated with cum laude honors from Stephen F. Austin High School in Port Arthur, Tx. and attended Xavier University of Louisiana after receiving the Samuel M. Newhouse academic scholarship. There he earned a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications (Journalism), with honors in English and a minor in Creative Writing; and would eventually regret taking out that extra student loan.

He currently resides in New Orleans, servicing independent musicians, small businesses, and organizations for over a decade with a wide array of skills including content generation, event production, multimedia design for print & web, photography/videography, copywriting, and scoring. He is a master of the Adobe Suite, Final Cut Pro, Mac-based work environments, DSLR's, DAW's, IG, FB, Twitter, Black Twitter, Tik-Tok, Tumblr, Myspace, Black Planet, and several of the other lesser-known esoteric arts.

KyMara Guidry

Clinical Coordinator

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KG is a Black, queer woman who calls the Northside of Houston home. A former HS English teacher, KG has been committed to using the law to make schools a safe, equitable, and joyful space for our most precious youth. Working to disrupt the school to prison pipeline has led her to center Black students, LGBTQ+ youth, students with disabilities, and youth impacted by the family policing system in her work. Prior to joining the L4BL team, she represented students with disabilities experiencing discrimination in Georgia K-12 schools. 

KG received her Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law where she served as the Vice President and President of OUTLaw. Upon graduation, she was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship affording her the opportunity to focus on education equity work in Georgia. She’s a proud alum of Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs. 

Coming from a lineage of elders blessed with "growing hands," KG is an urban grower dedicated to restoring her own relationship with the land. She sees every day as an opportunity to love the land back. KG is most at home with her hands in the soil. She dreams of a world where the classroom is in the garden or on the farm.

In her free time, she enjoys gardening, reading, cooking for her loved ones, dancing (on or offbeat), and enjoying the outdoors. 

Kareena Willis

Membership + Executive Associate

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Kareena started her career advocating for educational equity. As an AmeriCorps Vista member for United Way of King County as a Youth Engagement Coordinator, where she strived to dismantle barriers in the K to 12 educational system, and support students' pursuit of education beyond high school. Afterward, she transitioned to a Program Coordinator for College Success Foundation. She supported first-generation students and students who've experienced foster care as they navigated their time in college, and she helped plan the Passport State Conference in Washington.

In 2017, Kareena earned her BA in Telecommunication Media Studies from Texas A&M University. In 2022, she earned her MA in Media Studies with a focus in Media Philosophy from The New School. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she now resides in Brooklyn, New York. For enjoys, going to concerts, experimental filmmaking, searching through the Internet Archives, and a perfectly crafted lavender chai latte.

Deanie Anyangwe

Research + Political Education Coordinator

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Deanie Anyangwe is a Black feminist abolitionist dedicated to dismantling structural violence at the intersections of criminalization, health, and economic precarity, with a strong focus on uplifting Black youth and young adults. With a wealth of experience in policy advocacy, Deanie has worked on a range of critical issues such as criminalization, alternatives to incarceration, mental health, community violence, education justice, housing, and emergency response. Previously serving as a policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), Deanie co-led efforts to advance youth-centered, anti-carceral approaches to community safety, challenging the criminal punishment system and advocating for reform in education, mental health care, and violence prevention.

Deanie holds a Master of Public Health from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, a Master of City & Regional Planning from the UNC College of Arts & Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science in Health Policy and Administration from The Pennsylvania State University.

In her free time, Deanie enjoys reading, traveling, thrift shopping, attending festivals and concerts, and cherishing her role as an auntie to her nephews. She also loves to "keekee" with the homies and is proud to call Baltimore, MD home.

Elizabeth Jones

Research + Policy Manager

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Elizabeth Jones is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. She is a 2009 graduate of Georgetown Law Center and a 2018 graduate of the University of Louisville with a PhD in Urban and Public Affairs. Prior to joining Law for Black Lives as the Research and Policy Manager, Elizabeth worked at the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights as the Children’s Defense Team Supervisor and then as the Civil Legal Services Attorney. She has worked extensively in the area of training and education, working at Atlanta-based Gideon’s Promise and also holding an Endowed Chair position in Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. Ms. Jones currently resides in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. In her spare time she likes to garden, listen to music, and watch basketball.

Nzingha Hooker

Membership Director

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Nzingha is a Black queer woman from the South, who now calls Baltimore home. Nzingha holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from Claflin University and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.

Nzingha is a movement lawyer who is committed to using her legal and policy skills to support worker power building and leadership development in Black communities.

Nzingha most recently worked at the National Black Worker Center ("NBWC")  as the policy director. There, Nzingha focused on workers rights policy and advocacy, building the policy department and supporting internal policy and process development, as well as developing priorities, initiatives, campaigns, and partnerships. Nzingha has hosted convenings, facilitated political education workshops and webinars, and served as a thought partner to local organizations.

Prior to joining NBWC, she worked as a staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project, where she worked on unemployment insurance policy, helped integrate NELP’s social insurance and work equity portfolios, and deepen NELP’s racial equity work. Prior to NELP, most of her work as an attorney has been in direct services and litigation.

Nzingha enjoys reading, writing, talking, a variety of outdoor activities (hiking, swimming, kayaking), music, and dancing.  If you’ve ever chatted with her on a 1 on 1, you will know that she can’t keep from talking about Assata Shakur and Fred Hampton

Morgan Wilson

Partnerships Director

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Advisory Board 

Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights

Alana Greer, Community Justice Project

Amna Akbar, Ohio State University

Iman Freeman,  Baltimore Action Legal Team

Marbre Stahly-Butts, Law for Black Lives