Sonia Kikeri is the national director for policy and civic engagement at Emerald Cities Collaborative, working on equity-based policy analysis, development, and implementation and specializing in just transition, energy democracy, and community engagement. They have prior experiences ranging from working with refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border to serving as a legislative director for a Pennsylvanian senator. Sonia is commit- ted to naming, confronting, and dismantling systems of oppression, colonization, and white supremacy and is honored to work with those who are actively building a reality of equity, reparations, and liberation. They hold a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University as well as an MBA and Masters in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence from Brandeis University.
This first-hand account of the student takeover of the campus administration building raises strategic and operational issues through a lens of racial…