1. Samuel Sinyangwe is a co-founder of We the Protestors, a group of digital tools that include Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence and a co-host of the Pod Save the People podcast, where he discusses the week's news with a panel of other activists.
Samuel Sinyangwe was born May 12,1990, to a Tanzanian father and a European Jewish mother who met while studying at Cornell University.
Samuel Sinyangwe grew up in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando, Florida and attended Winter Park High School in the International Baccalaureate program.
Samuel Sinyangwe graduated from Stanford University, where he studied how race intersects with American politics, economics, and class.
Samuel Sinyangwe started his career at PolicyLink with the Promise Neighborhoods Institute.
Samuel Sinyangwe particularly noticed the absence of official government statistics on police violence and began compiling them from other sources like Fatal Encounters and KilledbythePolice.
Samuel Sinyangwe built projects including a database of police killings, Mapping Police Violence, and a platform of policy solutions to end police violence called Campaign Zero.
Samuel Sinyangwe has been responsible for a number of CPRA requests for RIPA-formatted police stops data through the non-profit organization MuckRock.
Samuel Sinyangwe has been a vocal critic of the "Ferguson Effect", using data to refute the theory that policing had diminished and crime increased in face of activist scrutiny of police use of force.
Samuel Sinyangwe is a co-host of Mckesson's podcast Pod Save the People, which discusses the week's news with a panel of other activists including Mckesson, Packnett and Clint Smith.
Samuel Sinyangwe has written for the Huffington Post and The Guardian.
In 2017, Samuel Sinyangwe was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for law and policy.
Samuel Sinyangwe was a 2017 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow.