06/28/2024
The Black Life Everywhere Team welcomes Devin Barrington-Ward and Penelope French as our local co-editors for our BLE: ATLANTA, our second edition in our local digital magazine series.
DEVIN BARRINGTON-WARD () is the Founder and Managing Director of Black Futurist Group (BFG), an Atlanta based social justice innovation firm using public policy, community organizing, media engagement, and political education as tools to build reimagined, equitable, and liberated Black futures in our lifetime. BFG does this work out of a belief that Black life is valuable, precious, and worth protecting. BFG works with those standing at the intersections of varying cultural, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities across various communities to build, preserve, improve, and advance reimagined Black futures.
PENELOPE FRENCH () is the Executive Director of Neighbor, a local Atlanta Healing Justice Organization that has chosen a pathway to liberation through art, organizing, restorative training programs, and spiritual activism. Neighbor is rooted in the spiritual/conscious liberation of Black people across the diaspora as a pathway to dismantling harmful government systems. Penelope is inspired to create healing systems that are life giving to black people and those who have been oppressed using an abolitionist framework.
Keep an eye out for more exciting content coming your way soon & the announcement of our BLE ATLANTA cohort!
