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Ryan S.

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

Yes, I’m Still Pissed That Slaves Were Held & Sold Out the Basement of Kelly’s in Westport

By Ryan S. ● Kansas City ● August 9, 2021 July 2, 2022

Can you imagine drinking and partying on top of a holocaust site?

White-led Media Organizations in Kansas City Should Give Reparations for Killing Black People

By Ryan S. ● Kansas City ● July 25, 2021 June 7, 2022

The history of Kansas City is one that white media has weaponized to produce the dehumanization and social death of Black people.