Monica Simpson
Monica Raye Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong, the southern-based national Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Monica is a proud, Black Queer Feminist and graduate of Johnson C Smith University, a historically black university (HBCU) based in Charlotte, NC. For over 20 years Monica has been organizing extensively for LGBTQ liberation, civil and human rights, and sexual and reproductive justice from a Southern to global scale. Monica is deeply committed to using the power of cultural organizing to educate and ignite the masses and dismantle systems of oppression. Monica has received numerous awards and acknowledgements for her innovative leadership including being named a New Civil Rights Leader by Essence Magazine, a visionary leader by the Ms. Foundation, one of Fast Company's awardees on their Queer 50 list, and as one of TIME 100’s most influential people of 2023.