A conversation with leading Black Panther Party member, human rights advocate and poet Ericka Huggins

Join CMGT 578: Non-profit Advocacy for a conversation with American activist and educator Ericka Huggins. She will discuss her vast experience in advocacy and activism.

About Ericka Huggins

Ericka Huggins is an educator, leading Black Panther Party member, former political prisoner, human rights advocate, and poet.

For 45 years Huggins has lectured in the United States, and internationally, on the principles of racial equity in our personal and work lives, as well as abolishing punitive practices and establishing restorative practices as we shift from mass incarceration.

Ericka was a professor of sociology and African American studies from 2008 through 2015 in the Peralta Community College district and, from 2003 to 2011 at California state universities, East Bay and San Francisco. 

Huggins is a racial equity workshop and learning lab facilitator for World Trust educational services. She curates conversations focused on the individual and collective work of becoming equitable in our daily lives, as well as the workplace. Additionally, she facilitates workshops on the benefit of spiritual practice in creating social change, and the importance of self-care.

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