Building Tools for Digital Activism

An interview with one of the Black Lives Matter movement's most prominent voices, DeRay Mckesson.

With his now-iconic blue vest, DeRay Mckesson, now the interim chief of Human Capital for Baltimore City Public Schools, has balanced using his platform online and off in order to draw attention to matters such as public safety and law enforcement reform. He has protested against police violence in places like Ferguson (MO); Baton Rouge (LA), and Charleston (SC). Through Campaign Zero, he and other BLM activists designed a policy plan calling for police reform. He even ran for Baltimore mayor in 2016, and though he lost, he drew widespread attention to his effort to bring BLM to the halls of government, where real change happens.