Milan Alexander
BreakOUT!
Milan Nicole is a Youth Organizer at BreakOUT! As a founding member, she has been an integral part of BreakOUT!’s campaign development and base-building. At BreakOUT! she organized LGBTQ youth to rally to end discriminatory police profiling in New Orleans and advocate for increased oversight with the Department of Justice. She started a #BrownTransLivesMatter campaign, performed in BreakOUT!'s theatrical production, and graduated from the Center for Third World Organizing's Apprenticeship Program. Milan received the 2013 NOLA Unity Award for her work in the New Orleans LGBTQ community.
Presentations from Facing Race 2014
Building a Community Led Movement to End Mass Incarceration
Research can be a vehicle for unearthing stories in order to fuel the resistance to the oppression we face. This workshop will explore how individuals and organizations throughout the country are examining and using community participatory research to illuminate and demystify the reality of the cradle to prison pipeline and the grave impacts of incarceration on individuals, families, and communities -- humanizing research and the lives of participants in the process. This highly interactive workshop is geared towards those who are actively engaged in working with young people and dismantling the prison industrial complex.
Speakers: Patrisse Cullors, DeAngelo Bester, Milan Alexander, Alicia Walters, Azadeh Zohrabi, Kennadi Robinson, Ashley Triggs