Quick Facts

Full Name	Alicia Garza
Occupation	Activist
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1981(1981-01-04)
Age	43
Birthplace	California
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Alicia Garza Biography

Alicia Garza is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on January 4, 1981 in California, California, United States. Civil rights activist who is widely recognized as one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Additionally, she has spearheaded such projects as People Organized to Win Employment Rights and the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

She protested the killing of teenager Michael Brown by a police officer.

Alicia Garza (born January 4, 1981) is an American civil rights activist and editorial writer from Oakland, California. She has organized around the issues of health, student services and rights, rights for domestic workers, ending police brutality, anti-racism, and violence against trans and gender non- conforming people of color. Her editorial writing has been published by The Guardian, The Nation, The Feminist Wire, Rolling Stone, HuffPost and Truthout. She currently directs Special Projects at the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Garza is also the Principal at the Black Futures Lab. Most notably, Garza co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement along with fellow activists Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.

With Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Garza birthed the Black Lives Matter movement. Garza is credited with inspiring the slogan when, after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, she posted on Facebook: “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter” which Cullors then shared with the hashtag

BlackLivesMatter. She was also struck by the similarities of Trayvon Martin

to her younger brother, feeling that it could have been him killed instead. The organization Black Lives Matter was spurred on by the killings of black people by police in recent media and racial disparities within the U.S. criminal legal system. Concerns were over violence from the police, mass incarceration, police militarization, and over-criminalization. In particular, the movement and Garza’s post became popularized after protests emerged in Ferguson, Missouri, where an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer.

She married fellow activist Malachi Garza in 2008.

Alicia Garza Net Worth

Alicia Garza is one of the richest Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alicia Garza 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She earned a degree in sociology and anthropology from UC San Diego.

She has written about a variety of social justice topics for outlets like The Guardian, Rolling Stone and HuffPost.

Alicia Garza was born in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California on January 4, 1981. Garza grew up in Oakland in a mix-raced household with a white, Jewish father and a black mother. Beginning in middle school and high school, Garza began advocating for her classmates to have access to information on reproductive health and contraceptives. Alongside her desire for reproductive equality, Garza considered herself a queer social justice activist and a Marxist. Garza graduated in 2002 from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in anthropology and sociology. In 2008, she married Malachi Garza, a transgender male activist.

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Who is Alicia Garza Dating?

According to our records, Alicia Garza married to Malachi Garza. As of December 1, 2023, Alicia Garza’s is not dating anyone.

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Garza led the 2015 Freedom Ride to Ferguson, organized by Cullors and Darnell Moore that launched the building of BlackLivesMatter chapters across the United States and the world. However, Garza does not think of the Black Lives Matter Movement as ever being created. She feels her work is only a continuation of the resistance led by black people in America. The movement and Garza are credited for popularizing the use of social media for mass mobilization; a practice called “mediated mobilization”. This practice has been used by other movements such as the #MeToo movement.

Facts & Trivia

Alicia Ranked on the list of most popular Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Alicia Garza celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.

In November 2017, Black Lives Matter founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi were awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.

Why did Alicia Garza start BLM?

With Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Garza birthed the Black Lives Matter hashtag. Garza is credited with inspiring the slogan when, after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin , she posted on Facebook: “I continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter…

Who is Alicia Garza's husband?

Malachi Garza

Is BLM copyrighted?

Is BLM copyrighted? No, BLM is too short to copyright. It is in the public domain. Single words and short phrases are unprotectable as copyrights in the United States.

Who is the BLM founder?

Patrisse Cullors
Notable work| Black Lives Matter
Spouse(s)| Janaya Khan ​ ( m. 2016)​
Children| 1

Where is Patrisse cullors from?

Los Angeles, CA