Rickke Mananzala

Rickke Mananzala has been involved in racial, economic, and gender justice issues for more than a decade. He most recently served as the Executive Director of FIERCE, an organization that builds the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City and nationally. As a former New Voices Fellow at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), he worked to develop methods for legal work to increase support for organizing efforts by transgender and gender non-conforming people in New York City. Rickke was a founding National Steering Committee member of the Right to the City Alliance and he also served on the Board of the Third Wave Foundation for five years where he helped to advance grant-making strategies to support feminist youth organizing work. Rickke is currently studying Political Science at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, NY.