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FROM STARBUCKS TO #SHOWUP
Melissa DePino cofounded From Privilege to Progress—a national movement to desegregate the public conversation about race and racism—after her viral video of two Black men being unjustly arrested at a Starbucks sparked an international conversation. She is a writer on the role of white Americans in antiracism work, frequent public speaker, novelist, and non-profit branding and marketing specialist. Her work at P2P has been featured on Red Table Talk, NPR’s Radio Times and Code Switch, Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, AM Joy, and in numerous television, print and online outlets. She is at work on a forthcoming book.