On sale August 1st from Beacon Press, Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women—such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall—in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the evolution of movements centering women’s experiences of policing … [Read more...]
Author
Andrea is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. She writes and speaks extensively on national and local policing issues, focusing on the experiences of Black women and women of color and LGBTQ people of color. … [Read more...]
Advocate
Andrea has over 20 years of experience as a researcher, policy analyst and advocate on criminal justice issues. She offers consulting services to national, state and local organizations and philanthropic partners, including: legal, legislative, and policy research and analysis technical assistance for campaign development, strategy, and messaging research, landscape analysis, and report writing and editing curriculum development staff training and development on issues … [Read more...]
Attorney
Please note Andrea is not currently taking cases or responding to legal inquiries. Andrea is a police misconduct attorney with over 13 years federal litigation experience in individual and impact cases. Cases include: Adkins v. City of New York, Southern District of New York (discrimination against transgender arrestee subject to heightened scrutiny) Guaman v. City of New York, Southern District of New York (excessive force against transgender woman) Doe v. Jindal and Doe v. Caldwell, … [Read more...]