SPEAKER. COMMENTATOR. FREEDOM FIGHTER.
A proud native of Newark, NJ, Eriqah R. K. Vincent is a 2010 departmental honors graduate of Spelman College with a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Women’s Studies. Currently, Eriqah serves as the Network Engagement Director for the Power Shift Network, a decentralized network of 90+ organizations that mobilizes the collective power of young people to mitigate climate change and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all.
For more than a decade, as an environmental justice and racial equity advocate, Eriqah served her community by educating residents about environmental racism and contributing to global conversations about sustainability. Moreover, She has assisted the next generation of community advocates to do the same. While she has recently prioritized environmental and social justice through her career, she strives to further serve the global community by enhancing ways she can positively impact the communities and organizations she serves.
"Liberation is the goal. Our community and the larger global diaspora has faced insurmountable oppression over the course of centuries; enslavement, systemic oppression, state violence, and the list continues. My vision for the future is seeing the liberation of majority African-descended communities. I would love to see relationship building and the connection with African descents across the globe, specifically young people, in the eradication of white supremacy and colonialism. Environmental injustice and anti-blackness are a result of these systems and global eradication is the only way we combat them. Studies have shown that when marginalized communities are lifted up and their needs not only met but exceeded, whole societies have the same upward trajectory. Strategic relationship building on a global scale can be the beginning of the solution."