Dr. Krystal Strong

Organizing and Resistance

portrait of Krystal Strong

Dr. Krystal Strong is an assistant professor of Black Studies in Education at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An anthropologist by training, her research and teaching use ethnographic, participatory, and multimodal methods to investigate youth and community activism, global Black social movements, and the role of education as a site of struggle in Africa and the African Diaspora. her current research projects investigate youth protest and leadership in Africa, political education across global Black social Movements, and collaboratively documents community-led organizing work around education justice and Black communities in Philadelphia, her hometown. Dr. Strong is an active community organizer whose political work centers abolition, political prisoners, and Pan-African solidarity. She is a core organizer with Black Lives Matter Philadelphia, co-convener of the Pan-African Activist Solidarity Collective, a global network of organizers on the frontlines of Black movements, and archive director of The MOVE Activist Archive, a community counter-archive working to preserve the revolutionary history and collective memory of The MOVE Organization.