Brea Baker is a freedom fighter and writer (in that order) who has been working for more than a decade, first as a student activist and now as a strategist, to make our planet safer and healthier for Black people. As a writer, Brea comments on race, gender, and sexuality for publications like ELLE, Refinery29 Unbothered, Harper’s BAZAAR, Coveteur, and more. Her book, Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft & The Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, delves into one of the nation’s first sins: stealing and hoarding the land. (One World, 2024)

Wearing many hats, Brea advises storytellers, celebrities, and industry leaders on building our collective imagination and responding thoughtfully to social justice movements. Over the last several years, she has contributed to dozens of electoral and advocacy campaigns, including the #NextYale movement to address the legacy of white supremacy on our campus, the 2017 Women’s March (where she served as the youngest national organizer), the 2018 student walkouts against gun violence, Jumaane Williams’ successful bid for NYC Public Advocate, and many more on behalf of police brutality victims and their families. 

For her work in coalition with other activists and organizers, Brea has been recognized as a 2023 Creative Capital awardee, a 2017 Glamour Woman of the Year and 2019 i-D Up and Rising. She has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University where she held internships with the U.S. Department of State and Public Defender Service DC, as well as having served as President of Yale’s NAACP Chapter and Co-Director of AIDS Walk New Haven.