Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Brittany Packnett Cunningham is an activist, writer and founder of Love & Power Works. She is host of the podcast UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham and a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Recent Articles

We'll Need Disciplined Hope Even After Trump

As we drove slowly through the crowded D.C. streets just blocks from the White House, we popped out of our sunroofs to exclaim in relieved jubilation. Lyrics like Lizzo’s “feelin’ good as hell” formed our...

By Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Young Activists Must Make John Lewis Proud

We now stand on the precipice of transformation now because people like John Lewis tilled the soil

By Brittany Packnett Cunningham

How Ferguson Woke Us Up

On Aug. 10, 2014, my first day of protest after the shooting of Michael Brown Jr., I stood outside the Ferguson Police Department and asked an officer why, on the night prior, he had brought...

By Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Black Lives Matter Isn't Going Anywhere

Racial justice is not just our cause—it's an American cause

By Brittany Packnett Cunningham
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