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I’m glad you’re here. Let’s connect and build a more racially and economically just and inclusive society together!
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Trevor Smith (he/him) is a writer, researcher, and strategist focused on topics such as racial inequality, wealth inequality, reparations, and narrative change. He is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the BLIS Collective, an infrastructure organization sparking radical collaboration and narrative alignment between and within Black, Indigenous, and progressive social movements to repair, decolonize, and transform culture. Previously, he was the Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, a field builder fueling the movement for Black-led racial repair, where he is building the ‘Reparations Narrative Lab’ (RNL). The RNL is a first-of-its-kind creative space designed to build narrative power behind reparations. He is also the creator, curator, and editor of a newsletter titled Reparations Daily (ish) and is working on his first book, Lethal Stereotypes: How the Stories We Tell Take Black Lives. You can read his full bio here.

“Loving Blackness as political resistance transforms our ways of looking and being, and thus creates the conditions necessary for us to move against the forces of domination and death and reclaim Black life.”

— bell hooks

“Don’t settle for less. Even the genius asks his questions. Be grateful for blessings. Don’t ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.”

—Tupac Shakur

Contact me.

To join the collective or for any BILS Collective-related work, writing, consulting, and speaking opportunities, please email trevor@bliscollective.org
If you’d like to donate to BLIS, please donate here.