Truthout
Asha Ransby-Sporn
Asha Ransby-Sporn is a Chicago-based community organizer and co-director of Organizing at Dissenters, an anti-militarist youth organization. Her organizing work has involved co-founding and helping build Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), organizing to get Columbia University to Divest from private prisons, participating in the We Charge Genocide youth delegation to the United Nations, and launching a citywide campaign to defund the Chicago Police Department.