Yeshimabeit Milner

Overview

Yeshimabeit Milner is co founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives. Raised in Miami FL Yeshimabeit began organizing against the school to prison pipeline at Power U Center for Social Change as a high school senior. There she developed a lifelong commitment to movement building as a vehicle for creating and sustaining large scale social change. Yeshimabeit returned to Power U in 2013 to lead a victorious campaign to improve breastfeeding policies at the largest public hospital in the country. More recently she was a campaign manager at Color of Change where she spearheaded several major national initiatives including OrganizeFor the only online petition platform dedicated to building the political voice of Black people and a successful campaign to remove Bill O Reilly from television. She has a BA from Brown University and serves on the board of the Highlander Center in Tennessee.