Alicia A. Wallace
Queer Black feminist, WHRD, promoting women's rights as human rights, thematic areas of work include feminist policy, legislative reform, and international mechanisms
Alicia A. Wallace is a queer Black feminist, gender expert, and research consultant. She is the Director of Equality Bahamas which promotes women's and LGBTQ+ rights as human rights. Her work includes campaign development, the design and coordination of monthly event series Women's Wednesdays, and disaster management.
She is a Steering Committee member of the Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR), Caribbean Advisor for FRIDA the Young Feminist Fund, and Advisor at The Queen's Commonwealth Trust. Alicia has a weekly column on sociopolitical issues in the Bahamian daily newspaper The Tribune and has published academic papers.
She produces The Culture RUSH, a monthly newsletter fusing social justice and pop culture and Scorch which makes feminist academic theory more accessible. Passionate about creating systems and tools to increase civic engagement, she creates safe spaces for critical dialogue and bold imagination.
Alicia is interested in issues of identity and power, and co-creating Black feminist futures.
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