Full Name
Anthonine Pierre
Job Title
Deputy Director
Company
Brooklyn Movement Center
Speaker Bio
Anthonine Pierre’s work centers Black leadership, collective liberation and a deep commitment to wholeness.
As the Deputy Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC), Anthonine oversees the organization’s member engagement and communications efforts. Her community organizing work at BMC since 2011 has ranged from facilitating Community School District 16 parent leadership trainings to supporting the family of Saheed Vassell, a Crown Heights resident killed by NYPD officers in 2018. Repping BMC in the police accountability coalition Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), Anthonine has led on several citywide campaigns, including #DefundNYPD, passing the Right to Know Act & the Justice for Eric Garner campaign.
She was a founding member of BMC’s Black woman-led anti-street harassment collective No Disrespect, which organized from 2013-2018 to end gendered and sexualized street harassment in Central Brooklyn with solutions outside of the police state. No Disrespect developed de-escalation tactics for women, queer, trans and gender non-conforming people to address violence in public spaces, hosted an annual anti-street harassment week event, and presented at INCITE! Color of Violence 4 (COV4)—Beyond the State: Inciting Transformative Possibilities.
Anthonine has 20 years of facilitation and public speaking experience. She joined BMC with a steady resume in public policy, government relations and youth leadership development. She has been quoted in and has had her work featured on numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, NY1, WNYC, the Daily News, the Amsterdam News, the Gotham Gazette, City & State, and Politico. Anthonine has received several awards, including the 2018 Shirley Chisholm Woman of Distinction Award from (then Councilmember) Jumaane Williams.
From 2015-2019, Anthonine facilitated government advocacy trainings for over 500 movement leaders across New York State as a trainer with the Advocacy Institute. She is an alum of the national training program Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and is on the cultivation team for NYC’s Black Organizing Strategy Sessions (BOSS).
Anthonine is a great adviser, especially on nonprofit management & radical giving! She represents BMC on the steering committees of Communities United for Police Reform and the NYS Black Freedom Project. Anthonine also sits on funding committees at the North Star Fund, Solidaire, and Silent Partners.
Anthonine loves doing good work with great people. Her passion for organizing is grounded in her Haitian immigrant upbringing in Giuliani-era New York City and her love of Octavia Butler. When she’s not trying to move dope people together towards the Afrofuture, you can find her biking around her native Flatbush with her husband, Jeffrey.
As the Deputy Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC), Anthonine oversees the organization’s member engagement and communications efforts. Her community organizing work at BMC since 2011 has ranged from facilitating Community School District 16 parent leadership trainings to supporting the family of Saheed Vassell, a Crown Heights resident killed by NYPD officers in 2018. Repping BMC in the police accountability coalition Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), Anthonine has led on several citywide campaigns, including #DefundNYPD, passing the Right to Know Act & the Justice for Eric Garner campaign.
She was a founding member of BMC’s Black woman-led anti-street harassment collective No Disrespect, which organized from 2013-2018 to end gendered and sexualized street harassment in Central Brooklyn with solutions outside of the police state. No Disrespect developed de-escalation tactics for women, queer, trans and gender non-conforming people to address violence in public spaces, hosted an annual anti-street harassment week event, and presented at INCITE! Color of Violence 4 (COV4)—Beyond the State: Inciting Transformative Possibilities.
Anthonine has 20 years of facilitation and public speaking experience. She joined BMC with a steady resume in public policy, government relations and youth leadership development. She has been quoted in and has had her work featured on numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, NY1, WNYC, the Daily News, the Amsterdam News, the Gotham Gazette, City & State, and Politico. Anthonine has received several awards, including the 2018 Shirley Chisholm Woman of Distinction Award from (then Councilmember) Jumaane Williams.
From 2015-2019, Anthonine facilitated government advocacy trainings for over 500 movement leaders across New York State as a trainer with the Advocacy Institute. She is an alum of the national training program Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) and is on the cultivation team for NYC’s Black Organizing Strategy Sessions (BOSS).
Anthonine is a great adviser, especially on nonprofit management & radical giving! She represents BMC on the steering committees of Communities United for Police Reform and the NYS Black Freedom Project. Anthonine also sits on funding committees at the North Star Fund, Solidaire, and Silent Partners.
Anthonine loves doing good work with great people. Her passion for organizing is grounded in her Haitian immigrant upbringing in Giuliani-era New York City and her love of Octavia Butler. When she’s not trying to move dope people together towards the Afrofuture, you can find her biking around her native Flatbush with her husband, Jeffrey.
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