33-year-old Toronto-based political rights activist and lawyer Sandy Hudson serves as a strong voice for the Black community. With her B.A. in political science and sociology and M.A. in social justice education from the University of Toronto, she founded Canada’s first Black Lives Matter chapter in 2014. Her aggressive campaigning and organizing led to her being featured on the New York Times, the Huffington Post, the Toronto Star, the Washington Post, FLARE magazine, NOW Magazine among other media outlets.

Hudson’s wide advocacy for her community includes the co-founding of the Black Legal Action Centre in 2017 where she sits as Vice Chair and the Black Liberation Collective in 2015. Now back in university to receive her J.D. in critical race studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, she maintains public engagement by acting as a keynote speaker and co-hosting the Sandy and Nora Talk Politics podcast.

Recognition for several of her keynote speeches are listed in the National Speakers Bureau archives. She continues to contribute written works such as the second edition of Race and Racialization and co-authoring Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada which was recently published in February 2020. She is the Editor-in-Residence at Kalamazoo College’s Praxis Center for Social Justice and makes herself available for justice works, political education, crisis management, policy analysis, keynote bookings, workshops and more.