On January 23rd, 2024, Life After The Impact is continuing its Advocates, Allies, & Accomplices Series from our first season, this time with an emphasis on the “Fundamentals of Organizing.” Hosts Roxane Johnson and LaToya Benton will be hearing from the expertise of April Goggans.
April Goggans is an organizer, disrupter, abolitionist, single mother of one adult daughter, originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado she is now a proud Southeast DC resident since 2006. Ms. Goggans became a Core Organizer with Black Lives Matter DC in September of 2015. Her organizing work focuses on community power building, affordable housing and tenants rights, labor, large scale direct action organizing, intra-community violence, policing and police brutality. She recently launched #KeepDC4Me. #KeepDC4Me is a leaderFULL coalition working to find non-police solutions to intra-community violence in ways that disrupt, confront, and dismantle systems of state sanctioned violence that displace and criminalize Black people through political education, building community power, and direct action. April has been organizing for more than 25 years and almost 12 of those years have been in southeast Washington, DC.
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