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Ryan S.

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Ryan has a diverse background including working at one of the nation’s most esteemed Black think tanks, one of Chicago’s top B2B Tech PR agencies, a top 3 global PR firm, and founding Kansas City’s largest Black-led direct action group during the 2020 uprisings. During Ryan’s professional career he’s consulted brands such as Facebook, Samsung, Amazon and Google.

He is a recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award recognized by the Urban League of Kansas City, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and NAACP. He has also engaged in a number of public talks as a prison industrial complex Abolitionist thinker including on; NPR, PBS, a Kansas City Art Institute Lecture, a lecture at University of the Arts London, the Annual International Symposium (Digital Ethics for a Sustainable Society), as well as the T-Mobile Speaker Series.

Ryan's Latest Articles

No Charges. Black Missouri Teen Saveion McConnell Was Unarmed, Charged With Nothing, and Gunned Down by a Cop Who Shot at Him 9 Times. The State Just Ruled His Slaughter Legal.

By ● Justice ●
Four and a half months after a Lafayette County deputy rammed nineteen-year-old Saveion McConnell with a patrol car and then fired nine rounds at him on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 50, Johnson County Prosecutor Robert Russell announced Tuesday that no crime was committed. Saveion had no weapon. Witnesses say his hands were in the air.

NUCLEAR GUINEA PIGS: How a Small Kansas Town Became the Site of a Nuclear Experiment to Power AI

By ● Investigation ●
Artificial intelligence needs more power than America will give it, so the industry went looking for ground where nobody gets a vote. In Parsons, Kansas, where one in five residents lives in poverty, that means the first nuclear reactor in history designed to operate underground, drilled through the aquifer, on land where the Army still detonates waste explosives under federal permit.

Major Voter Disenfranchisement in Kansas? Black and Latino Majority County Mailed Ballots With a Return Address the Post Office Won’t Deliver To

By ● Politics ●
Voters in a Black and brown majority county are finding their completed ballots back in their own mailboxes, sealed and uncounted, four days before the Kansas primary. The county printed a retired post office box on the return envelope and the Postal Service stopped delivering to it. Nobody will say how many votes it hit.

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