Prince Shakur is a queer, Jamaican-American freelance journalist, cultural writer, organizer, and traveler. He helped bring the Black Lives Matter movement to Ohio University’s campus in 2014-2015, and organized a rally that pressured the university to oust the president. By 25, Shakur would live in Seattle, participate in the Nuit Debout riots in France, live-stream in Standing Rock, disrupt a Bill Clinton speech, document his travels, and begin his career as a freelance writer with a viral essay unpacking racism while doing seasonal work in Outside Magazine. He is a local Columbus organizer and abolitionist involved with BQIC. In 2017, he was awarded the Rising Star Grant from GLAAD for his YouTube series, Two Woke Minds. His debut memoir about his coming out and of age in Obama and Trump’s America earned him writing residencies with Sangam House, La Maison Baldwin, Studios of Key West, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Norton Island Residency, and Twelve Arts. He is represented by Elle