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Advisory Board
Although all three of the editors are male, we are doing our utmost to ensure a wide range of perspectives are represented in this project. To that end, we have enlisted the guidance of an all women of color advisory board to help guide the editing process. Our advisory board includes four lifelong activists: Kai Lumumba Barrow, Yuri Kochiyama, Elizabeth Betita Martinez, and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons.

Kai Lumumba Barrow is a longtime organizer, painter, and political artist. Barrow has worked with groups such as the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Republic of New Afrika, the Student Liberation Action Movement, and community-based and collaborative art projects with women of color. Currently, she is the Northeast Regional Coordinator for Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex, and on the board of FIERCE!, a queer youth of color organization.

Yuri Kochiyama was interned along with her family in U.S. concentration camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She began her political activism in 1960, after she and her husband moved to Harlem, organizing for safer streets and integrated education. A friend of Malcolm X, she worked with his Organization of Afro-American Unity. She has been a tireless supporter of reparations for African Americans and of U.S. political prisoners. Yuri lives in Oakland.

Elizabeth Betita Martinez is the co-founder and director of the Institute for MultiRacial Justice and an editor of War Times/Tiempo de Guerras newspaper. The author of six books (including Letters From Mississippi, De Colores means All of Us, and 500 Years of Chicano History), Martinez has been an antiracist, social justice activist for more than forty years, involved in an array of liberation movements. She lives in San Francisco.

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion and affiliated faculty in the Women Studies Department at the University of Florida. In the 1960s, she spent seven years working full time on voter registration and desegregation activities throughout the South, mainly with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Before coming to Gainesville, she worked with the American Friends Service Committee for twenty-three years.

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Letters From Young Activists:
Today's Rebels Speak Out
Edited by: Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow