Anna Blackshaw (she/her) is a political organizer, policy advocate, documentarian and white anti-racist educator who has worked at the intersections of legislative advocacy, community organizing, and grassroots change for over thirty years. Her work focuses on dismantling militarism and white supremacy within both U.S. domestic and foreign policy, while building political power to replace systems of extraction, exploitation, and carcerality with those rooted in equity, justice and community care.
Anna is a co-founder of Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area and serves on the board of Just Foreign Policy. She currently works with the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement. Anna’s writing and photography have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, ColorLines, Common Dreams and The Sun, and is a co-author of No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa.