The Davidson College Union Board is virtually hosting Patrisse Cullors in conversation with Dr. Laurian Bowles, professor of Anthropology at Davidson College on November 10th at 7:30pm. Artist, activist, educator, public speaker, and Los Angeles-native Patrisse Cullors is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of the Los Angeles-based grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now. For the last 20 years, Patrisse has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020. Patrisse co-founded the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after sparking the viral Twitter hashtag. The movement has since expanded into an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world campaigning against anti-black racism. Her work for the organization received recognition and was honored in TIME Magazine’s 2020 100 Women of the Year project. In January 2016, Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which became an instant New York Times Bestseller.​