Charlene Carruthers

Carruthers, Charlene (2018), "Hearing Assata Shakur's Call: A Black Feminist Reflection on "To My People" ", WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 46 (3–4): 222–225, OCLC 7900054322

Carruthers, Charlene (2018), Unapologetic: a Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements, Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, OCLC 1014037040

In August 2014 she went to Ferguson, Missouri to train and organize black youth response as the city reeled from the shooting of 18-year-old Mike Brown at the hands of Ferguson officer Darren Wilson.

Charlene Carruthers is a black queer feminist activist and organizer. Her work aims to create young leaders in marginalized communities to fight for community interests and liberation. Carruthers' career in justice advocacy spans over ten years, working with some high-profile activist organizations including Color of Change and Women's Media Center. She was an integral member in the creation of the Black Youth Project 100, and has served as National Director or National Coordinator since the organization's founding in 2013. Carruthers is the author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements published by Penguin Random House in 2018.

In July 2013, Carruthers was one of 100 black millennial activist leaders from across the country assembled by the Black Youth Project in Chicago for a meeting aimed at building networks of organization for black youth activism across the country. On the second day of that meeting news from Florida announced the acquittal of George Zimmerman on an all charges relating to his February 26, 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. This verdict galvanized Carruthers and the other activists into the formation of the Black Youth Project 100 to organize young black activism in resistance to structural oppressions.

Carruthers is an outspoken critic of unchecked police brutality, inadequate government responsiveness to major brutality cases, and the American criminal justice system's fundamental motivations and mechanisms. Her work has brought her to the epicenters of several prominent cases in the mid-2010s movement for black public safety.