Advisory Board
The Black Girls Matter Miami Coalition seeks to address the many dangerous odds facing young women of color in America. From public education to the criminal justice system, the various institutions that come in contact with black and brown youth fail to address issues that disproportionately impact young women and girls of color. Coalition members include S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective, Power U Center for Social Change, Dream Defenders, The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth, Lutze Segu, & Emani Castillo.
S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective serves as the convener and fiscal sponsor of the Black Girls Matter MIA coalition.
S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Collective
S.O.U.L (Sisters Organizing for Understanding & Leadership) Sisters Leadership Collective (SSLC) mobilizes systems-involved girls, femmes, and TGNC youth of color - Black, Brown, and Indigenous - to interrupt cycles of state violence, poverty, and oppression.
Our four pillars are leadership, healing, social justice, and the arts. Growing out of the dire need for gender-specific services and leadership development for young women impacted by school pushout and the justice system in urban areas, SSLC launched in August of 2014 in Miami and NYC.
The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth
The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth is the only non-profit organization in Miami-Dade County exclusively committed to providing prevention, early intervention social services, and advocacy to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth, their families, and communities.
The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth coordinates a full range of quality services through partnerships with many Miami-Dade County service organizations. We serve youth, their families and communities while advocating for equal rights and status of all youth regardless of their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity/ expression.
Power U Center For Social Change
Power U believes that the systems of White Supremacy, Capitalism, and Heteropatriarchy [1] are the roots of oppression in our society. To fight these forms of oppression and win Human Rights [2], Power U strives to uphold the following principles in ourselves, our organization, and our movement for social justice:
Self Determination For All Communities
Economic Justice
Black Liberation
Women’s Liberation
Equality For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Youth Empowerment
International Solidarity
Dream Defenders
Dream Defenders are building a powerful, deep, local, organization and movement for freedom and liberation in Florida.
Dream Defenders was founded in 2012 to make powerful change come to Florida. The time is now.
Lutze Segu
Lutze (loot-see) Segu is a first-generation Haitian-American femme born and raised in Miami, FL which is the traditional and ancestral lands of the Miccosukee, Seminole, and Tequesta First nations. She is a social justice doula which means she creates the conditions for social justice learning to take place. She does this through workshops with groups, organizations, and coaching people one-on-one. Lutze is currently a Ph.D. candidate who attends the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada studying Gender, Race Sexuality, and Social Justice. You can learn more about her by visiting her website https://www.lutzesegu.com or following her public feminist scholarship @socialjusticedoula.
Emani Castillo
Emani Castillo is a Free Radical Advising member of Black Girls Matter MIA.