On January 23, 2024, Life After The Impact continued its Advocates, Allies, & Accomplices Series from our first season, this time with an emphasis on the “Fundamentals of Organizing.” Hosts Roxane Johnson and LaToya Benton heard from the expertise of April Goggans.

April Goggans is an organizer, disrupter, abolitionist, single mother of one adult daughter, originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado she is now a proud Southeast DC resident since 2006. Ms. Goggans became a Core Organizer with Black Lives Matter DC in September of 2015. Her organizing work focuses on community power building, affordable housing and tenants rights, labor, large scale direct action organizing, intra-community violence, policing and police brutality. She recently launched  ...