Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: Rethinking Strategy & Collective Action in US Politics

Maurice Mitchell is a political strategist & leader in the Movement for Black Lives (MBL). In the wake of the police murder of Mike Brown, he relocated to Ferguson to help build MBL. He went on to co-found & lead Blackbird, a movement anchor organization, and was a key organizer of the MBL convention in 2015. In 2018, Maurice took the helm of the Working Families Party (WFP) where he is applying his passion and experience to make WFP the political home for a multi-racial working-class movement.