Our Team
Law For Black Lives is a Black femme-led national network of over 6,000 radical lawyers and legal workers. Our staff is deeply committed to supporting the leadership of directly impacted communities and transforming the legal field to represent the values of movement lawyering, which are centered in building community power and democratizing the law.
Christian Snow,
Executive Director
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Kat Walden is a Philadelphia native now living in New Orleans. In Philly, she worked for the Petey Greene Program to provide supplemental education services to people in prisons and jails. Once in NOLA, she joined the Unanimous Jury Coalition, which overturned a Jim Crow-era law allowing non-unanimous juries to convict someone of a felony. As Program Coordinators at Operation Restoration and the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, she worked to dismantle oppressive systems and put power in the hands of people who care, hear, and represent our BIPOC communities. Kat is energized by engaging in and cultivating intentional spaces for radical movement building and thinking that fight for the rights and liberation of BIPOC communities, and ensure their humanity is always front and center. Kat graduated from Temple University with a B.S. in Human Development and Community Engagement in 2017. When she's not jamming out to Beyoncé or thinking about a beach or camping, you can find her obsessing over any and all dogs.
Christian Snow is a long-time resident of Chicago's west side. Snow graduated from Grinnell College with a degree in sociology and history, and obtained her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.
Snow most recently worked at the Illinois Justice Project (“ILJP”) as a program director. There, Snow focused on organizing policy advocates, state leaders, community-based organizations and grassroot organizers to develop and implement a shared state-wide policy agenda and strategic plan to end criminalization and incarceration and to support safe and thriving communities. Additionally, at ILJP, Snow led the juvenile justice policy portfolio partnering with organizers, advocates, and stakeholders to increase community resources for young people, eliminate the use of detention centers, educate policy makers on harmful city and state policies and possible solutions, and create space for young people and their families to advocate for their own needs. Lastly, Snow operated as a trainer and thought partner for philanthropists, policy makers, advocates, and lawyers seeking to understand the application of abolitionist values and principles to their work.
Prior to ILJP, Snow worked as an Associate Attorney at the People’s Law Office. Snow's work there focused on assisting with civil rights cases involving police brutality and misconduct. Additionally, Snow was first an adult member, and then the Executive Director of Assata's Daughters, a Chicago grassroots abolitionist organization that trained young Black people to organize in line with the Black Radical Tradition by providing them with a political home where they receive political education, organizing training, and revolutionary support through mutual aid. Snow contributed to Assata's Daughters through strategic direction, fundraising, staff management, and program development. Snow has worked in coalition with movement organizations and collectives in Chicago and throughout the midwest by providing research assistance, legal and political education trainings, coordination, facilitation, strategic planning, and curriculum development.
Kat Walden, Membership Coordinator
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Bryce Larkins, Communications Coordinator
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Kareena started her career advocating for educational equity. As an AmeriCorps Vista member for United Way of King County as a Youth Engagement Coordinator, where she strived to dismantle barriers in the K to 12 educational system, and support students' pursuit of education beyond high school. Afterwards, she transitioned to a Program Coordinator for College Success Foundation. She supported first-generation students and students who've experienced foster care as they navigated their time in college, and she helped plan the Passport State Conference in Washington.
In 2017, Kareena earned her BA in Telecommunication Media Studies from Texas A&M University. In 2022, she earned her MA in Media Studies with a focus in Media Philosophy from The New School. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she now resides in Brooklyn, New York. For enjoys, going to concerts, experimental filmmaking, searching through the Internet Archives, and a perfectly crafted lavender chai latte.
KyMara Guidry, Clinical Coordinator
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Advisory Board
Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights
Alana Greer, Community Justice Project
Amna Akbar, Ohio State University
Iman Freeman, Baltimore Action Legal Team
Marbre Stahly-Butts, Law for Black Lives
Bryce Larkins is a multi-disciplinary audio/visual creator. He graduated with cum laude honors from Stephen F. Austin High School in Port Arthur, Tx. and attended Xavier University of Louisiana after receiving the Samuel M. Newhouse academic scholarship. There he earned a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications (Journalism), with honors in English and a minor in Creative Writing; and would eventually regret taking out that extra student loan.
He currently resides in New Orleans, servicing independent musicians, small businesses, and organizations for over a decade with a wide array of skills including: content generation, event production, multimedia design for print & web, photography/videography, copywriting, and scoring. He is a master of the Adobe Suite, Final Cut Pro, Mac-based work environments, DSLR's, DAW's, IG, FB, Twitter, Black Twitter, Tik-Tok, Tumblr, Myspace, Black Planet, and several of the other lesser-known esoteric arts.
Kareena Willis, Membership and Executive Associate
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KG is a Black, queer woman who calls the Northside of Houston home. A former HS English teacher, KG has been committed to using the law to make schools a safe, equitable, and joyful space for our most precious youth. Working to disrupt the school to prison pipeline has led her to center Black students, LGBTQ+ youth, students with disabilities, and youth impacted by the family policing system in her work. Prior to joining the L4BL team, she represented students with disabilities experiencing discrimination in Georgia K-12 schools.
KG received her Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law where she served as the Vice President and President of OUTLaw. Upon graduation, she was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship affording her the opportunity to focus on education equity work in Georgia. She’s a proud alum of Texas Southern University’s Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs.
Coming from a lineage of elders blessed with "growing hands," KG is an urban grower dedicated to restoring her own relationship with the land. She sees every day as an opportunity to love the land back. KG is most at home with her hands in the soil. She dreams of a world where the classroom is in the garden or on the farm.
In her free time, she enjoys gardening, reading, cooking for her loved ones, dancing (on or offbeat), and enjoying the outdoors.