Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant whose writing, research, organizing, litigation, and advocacy has focused on policing and criminalization of women and LGBT people of color for the past two decades. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, where she recently launched the Interrupting Criminalization: Research to Action initiative with BCRW Researcher-in-Residence Mariame Kaba. She is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon Press 2017), co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women (AAPF 2015) and Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Beacon Press 2011), and has published numerous articles, policy reports and research studies. She is a nationally recognized expert on policing issues, and works with groups across the country to support campaigns to end profiling, police violence, criminalization, mass incarceration, and deportation. She was a 2014 Senior Soros Justice fellow and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Invisible Institute.