Andrea Ritchie


Andrea J. Ritchie is a writer, lawyer, and activist for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence. Ritchie co-authored the report with Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum. In 2017, Ritchie published Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.
Ritchie's writing has appeared in the The New York Times, Teen Vogue, and Essence.
Andrea Ritchie attended Cornell University and Howard University School of Law. She is a Researcher-in-Residence at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Center for Research on Woman.