Dayvon Love is a Baltimore-based political organizer and the Director of Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a grassroots think-tank that advances the public policy interests of African-Americans.
Love co-founded the organization in 2010. Since then, he and fellow organizers have helped lead reforms to the criminal justice system. For Love, police reform is deeply tied to tackling racism.
“By and large, I think people need to develop an understanding that if we’re serious about addressing racism and white supremacy in this society, then there needs to be investment in Black people’s ability to practice sovereignty and self-determination. And outside of that, there is no freedom without that,” he said in an interview with Mike Walter.