People

Akilah Sanders-Reed

Operations & Fiscal Sponsorship Coordinator

Akilah (Pronouns: She/Her) grew up in New Mexico before moving to Minnesota in 2012. She brings a desert kid’s understanding of the importance of water - and of what the driest places stand to lose if we keep burning fossil fuels. Minnesota is a thoroughfare for tar sands oil transportation, and Akilah has been active in organizing against major pipeline projects like Line 3. She sees this as one direct and tangible way of taking on the climate crisis at the scale that’s needed by resisting the racist extractive corporate power that drives so many forms of injustice. When she’s not working to thwart Enbridge, she enjoys hiking, learning about elephants, petting her cats, and rowing on Minnesota’s lakes.