Rashad Robinson

Biography

Rashad Robinson is President of Color Of Change, a racial justice organization with more than 7 million members who demonstrate the power of Black communities every single day. Color Of Change uses innovative strategies to bring about lasting change in systems and sectors that affect Black people’s lives.
Under Rashad’s leadership, Color Of Change has developed winning strategies for holding local prosecutors accountable to enact major criminal justice reform; holding Big Tech corporations accountable to address the racial injustice they cause; leading the $7 billion advertiser boycott of Facebook; exposing rampant racial discrimination by Wall Street in the federal Paycheck Protection Program; forcing Fortune 500 corporations to end their support of white nationalist organizations and to turn empty solidarity statements into tangible policy commitments; changing the rules for how crime, policing and race are represented on TV; helping to make bailreform a national issue; forcing over