Blu Lewis (they/them) is a native New Yorker with a passion for building all things Black. They have over ten years of experience as a community organizer, researcher, and program director.

Blu is most passionate about coordinating and developing local, state-wide, and national Black-led movements and infrastructures centred on meeting the needs and shifting the conditions of Black, working class, and TGNCI communities.

Blu currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are minister of organizing for the Movement for Black Lives, the director of North Carolina’s Black Leadership and Organizing Collective, and principled researcher for Our Data Bodies Research collective.

Blu is committed to honouring Black Radical Traditions by working to create conditions that make it possible for Black people and movements to win, both nationally and globally.