Miya Ward is a consultant with Nexight Group, specializing in stakeholder engagement, communications strategies, data collection and analysis, and technical writing and editing. She has been an active participant and organizer in social movement spaces for nearly two decades. Aside from the Ford Hall 2015 case study, she is a co-author of BYP100’s Agenda to Build Black Futures. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Haverford College and a MBA with a focus on non-profit management from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
This first-hand account of the student takeover of the campus administration building raises strategic and operational issues through a lens of racial…