Live With Renowned Author Valarie Kaur

Valarie Kaur is a social justice activist who leads campaigns for civil and human rights.  Kaur was born and raised in California´s Central Valley where her family settled as  Sikh farmers a century ago. When a Sikh family friend was the first person murdered in a hate crime after 9/11, she made her first film on hate violence in America. Since then,  her story-based advocacy has helped win policy change on hate crimes, racial profiling, immigration detention, solitary confinement, marriage equality, and  Internet freedom. In order to equip a new generation of advocates, she  founded Groundswell Movement, America's largest multi faith online organizing  community of 300,000 known for "dynamically strengthening faith-based organizing  in the 21st century." She also founded the Yale Visual Law Project and co founded Faithful Internet. During her work, whether inside supermax prisons, on the military base at Guantanamo, or at sites of mass shootings, she identified a surprising key element for social change: the ethic of love. Today she leads the Revolutionary  Love Project to champion love as a wellspring for social action. Kaur earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School. She is a  member of the California Bar. She lives in Los Angeles with her film partner and husband Sharat Raju and son Kavi. She believes: "The way we make change is just as  important as the change we make." 

Audiences heard directly from Valarie Kaur about her work, learned from one of our learning site school directors about using Revolutionary Love to inform practice and inspire staff, and understand how Roots ConnectED uses Kaur’s work in inspiring conversations around anti-bias education.  We will also have the opportunity to hear Kaur answer questions about leading and working through revolutionary love.