Malkia Devich Cyril

Malkia’s vision is to create a Radical Loss Movement, mobilizing California’s bereaved Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other communities of color to build a radical practice of grief that can fuel transformative grievance and governance to replace racialized policies and practices that punish and disenfranchise BIPOC grief. The focus of Malkia’s work is to transform the conditions for mourning in public schools, prisons and popular movements, and catalyze that grief as a tool for change. Malkia will examine how prisons continue to contribute to mortality for people of color and Black people in particular; and how movements can supercharge our capacity for transformative change by radicalizing grief.