Ejeris Dixon (they/she) is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Principal of Ejerie Labs and Founding Executive Director of Vision Change Win Consulting, where they partner with organizations throughout the United States and internationally to build their capacity and deepen the impact of their organizing strategies. From 2010 - 2013 Ejeris served as Deputy Director, in charge of the Community Organizing Department at the New York City Anti-Violence Project where they directed national, statewide, and local organizing and advocacy initiatives on hate violence, domestic violence, police violence, and sexual violence. From 2005 - 2010 Ejeris worked as the Founding Program Coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective at the Audre Lorde Project where they worked on creating transformative justice strategies to address hate and police violence.  Over the past twenty years Ejeris has directly worked on thousands of incidents of violence, and directly organized around more than a hundred murders of Queer and Trans People of Color.

They are a co-editor of Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies of the Transformative Justice Movement with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, which became a finalist for the Lambda Literary award in LGBTQ Anthology.  Ejeris's writing, analysis, and advocacy have been featured in Truthout Magazine, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, SPIN Magazine, the New York Times, The New Yorker, NBC, CNN, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation. In 2012, the White House recognized Ejeris as an Emerging LGBT Leader twice and selected them as a featured speaker on violence against Black LGBTQ communities. Ejeris received a Bachelor’s Degree in African American Studies from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Nonprofit Management from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.

Ejeris is a karaoke diva, loves cooking complicated meals, and has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the past twenty years.