News & Commentary written by Dominique Morgan

Dominique Morgan is an award-winning artist, activist, and speaker. As the National Director of Black and Pink, Morgan works daily to dismantle the systems that perpetuate violence on LGBTQ/GNC people and individuals living with HIV and AIDS. Partnering their lived experience of incarceration as a youth (which included 18 months in solitary confinement), with a decade of change making artistry, advocacy, and background in public health, they continues to work in spaces of sex education, radical self-care, and youth development with intentions of dismantling the prison industrial complex and the impact it has on our community.

Morgan is an NAACP Freedom Fighter Award recipient, Young, Black, and Influential Award recipient for Advocacy and Omaha Chamber Young Professionals Changemaker Award recipient. They are currently completing their capstone project for studies in the Georgetown University – System Involved LGBTQ Youth Scholar Program.