Anita Wills is a writer, author, speaker and community activist. She is the author of six books, including A Nation of Flaws JustUs in the Homeland, a historical account of policing in America. She is currently completing her seventh book, Minqua Unami and Okehocking the Down River Nations. Ms. Wills is an Activist with Movement for Black Lives, a Policy Outreach Leader (POL), for Ron Dellums Social Justice Institute, and is founder and President of Stand Up N Do Something. Her Activism with housing centers on the formerly incarcerated who are integrating into their Community. Ms. Wills Activim began when her son Kerry Baxter, Sr. was wrongfully convicted of 2nd Degree Murder in 2003. When her grandson was shot and killed in Oakland her Activism took a new turn. On March 29, 2012 Ms. Wills led a Million Hoodie March in San Francisco in support of Trayvon Martin. She traveled with a group of Activists to Ferguson Missouri and was one of the protestors assailed by Police with Pepper Spray and rubber bullets. Ms. Wills advocates around many issues including wrongful convictions, disparate sentencing of African Americans, sentencing reform, prisoners’ rights, and ending money bail, and Police Accountability.
