Launched in December 2014 by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), the #SayHerName Campaign brings awareness to the often invisible names and stories of Black women, girls, and femmes who have been victimized by racist police violence, and provides support to their families.

As we mark the passing of a year since Breonna Taylor’s life was cruelly snatched away by Louisville police officers, we also uplift the names of Tanisha Anderson, Michelle Cusseaux, Shelly Frey, Korryn Gaines, India Kager, Kayla Moore, Michelle Shirley, India Beaty, and the dozens of other Black women who have lost their lives to the scourge of police violence. This last year has also been marked by the renewal of #BlackLivesMatter’s cultural resonance, which constitutes an essential moment. It forces a long-overdue reckoning, shifts anti-racism into the center of American discourse, and serves as a beacon for better days to come. The possibility of this moment makes it all the more important to address the intersectional demands of injustice. And those intersectional demands start with bearing witness.

The #SayHerName Campaign is so much more than a hashtag. It is a multi-dimensional campaign centered around the experiences and demonstrated needs of the #SayHerName Mothers Network—mothers, sisters, and families who have lost daughters to police violence.

On Thursday, March 25, join us for an information session about the #SayHerName Campaign featuring our #SayHerName Mothers Network in conversation with AAPF’s Executive Director Kimberlé Crenshaw. They will discuss the origins of the movement, the urgency of its creation, and the policy imperatives required to disrupt the conditions that leave Black women susceptible to police violence and subsequent erasure from discourses.

This is a moment for activists, supporters, and newcomers to learn more about the movement and the Mothers that make it possible. It is also an opportunity for you to join our growing network, which is being taken up around the world. This interactive information session is a launching point that will ensure the names of Black women killed by police are spoken, that their stories get told, and that witnesses will carry those stories across time and space to inform, to galvanize, to insist, and to demand. We invite you to become a part of it.

Say. Her. Name.