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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

The First Robot Genocide: Israel Experimenting with Dystopian Militarized Robot Dogs in Ongoing Extermination Campaign

By ● World ●
In an era where technology is shaped and driven by violent capitalist incentives and the military-industrial-complex, Gaza faces a grim new reality: the world’s first AI genocide. Armed with drone-mounted robot dogs, the Israeli military has crossed a terrifying threshold, utilizing conflict zones to experiment and “battle-test” technologies of extermination.

Kansas City Mourns Two Mass Super Bowl Tragedies in One Week – We Must Acknowledge Them Both

By ● Justice ●
As Kansas City reels from the horror of a Super Bowl parade mass shooting, a parallel tragedy unfolded thousands of miles away: israel slaughtered 100 Palestinians during the Super Bowl game itself – as the genocide of the Palestinian people continues. This juxtaposition lays bare a stark empathy gap—a call to recognize the intertwined fabric of local and global injustices that demands our united action and compassion

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