Darian is the lead campaign organizer at Brooklyn Movement Center, a Black-led, membership-based organization that nurtures local leadership, wages campaigns and wins concrete improvements in people’s lives.
Since 2015, Darian X has fully dedicated his life to community organizing and forwarding public policy in New York City. Prior to joining Brooklyn Movement Center, Darian was the Community Organizer for Justice,Safety, and Health Equity with the Office of the New York City Public Advocate where he worked to align city policy with grassroots organizing in directly impacted communities. Previously at Make the Road NY, he was active in city-wide campaigns with young people around both education and policing reform.
Darian also has partnered with the Public Science Project at CUNY for a Participatory Action Research project called Researchers for Fair Policing (now Growing Up Policed) to address the impact of abusive policing practices on youth of color, and also is a member of Communities United for Police Reform, a city-wide coalition of organizations aimed at ending abusive and discriminatory policing in communities of color.
Darian has given testimony to President Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force, and sat on the Mayoral Leadership Team around School Discipline focused on changing policies, practices and overall climate between young people and the NYPD’s School Safety Division. He has also been a part of the International Boot Camp: Documentation of Policing Practice in Amsterdam.
These experiences, coupled with solidarity and support to Ferguson during the Weekend of Resistance and Cop Watch patrols to ensure the safety of community members have culminated into a flexible organizing perspective rooted in Black communities most impacted by state violence.