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Biography
Samuel Sinyangwe (born 1990) is an American policy analyst and racial justice activist. Sinyangwe is a member of the Movement for Black Lives and a co-founder of Mapping Police Violence, a database of police killings in the United States, and Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence.
Early life
Sinyangwe attended high school in Orlando, Florida. He graduated from Stanford University, where he studied how race intersects with US politics, economics, and class.
Career
As protests emerged in the wake of 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Samuel connected with Ferguson activists DeRay Mckesson and Johnetta Elzie to develop policy solutions to address police violence in America. Together, they built a database of police killings, Mapping Police Violence, and a platform of policy solutions to end police violence called Campaign Zero. During the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign, Sinyangwe and colleagues met with Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton on these policy issues. He has also been a vocal critic of the "Ferguson Effect", using data to debunk the premise of this theory.
His work has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, BBC News, FiveThirtyEight, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He has written for the Huffington Post and The Guardian.
Selected writings
- "Stop Pretending the 'Ferguson Effect' is Real | The Huffington Post". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- "Giving the 'Ferguson effect' a new name won't make it truer | Samuel Sinyangwe | Opinion | The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- http://useofforceproject.org/s/Use-of-Force-Study.pdf