About Sandy
Sandy Hudson is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement in Canada and Black Lives Matter – Toronto Chapter. She is a dedicated activist, influential thought leader and award-winning writer. Sandy’s binds her skills of distilling complex matters and storytelling to inspire audiences to invite a just future into their organizations.
Hudson is also the co-founder of the Black Legal Action Centre, a specialty legal aid clinic that provides direct legal services and test case litigation for Black communities in Ontario, Canada. In addition, she co-founded the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism in Toronto, a space that seeks to nurture Black radical creation and organizing. Hudson believes that the key to creating justice for society’s most challenging problems is through cultural change, and she often infuses the arts and culture into her social justice praxis.
Hudson was named to Maclean’s 2021 Power List, and named one of Refinery29’s “29 Power Houses.” She has also been recognized as an influential Torontoian by Toronto Life, and one of Canada International Black Women Event’s “100 Black women to watch.” She has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, Toronto Star, CTV News, CP24, Global News, Buzzfeed, and KTLA.
An award-winning writer, Hudson is the co-author of the bestselling anthology, Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada. Her published work has appeared in Maclean’s magazine, Chatelaine, FLARE magazine, Washington Post, Toronto Star, and the Huffington Post, among others. Hudson also co-hosts the Sandy and Nora Talk Politics podcast with Nora Loreto, and is the co-executive producer of Black Life: A Canadian History, an eight-part documentary series about Black life in Canada.
A woman of boundless energy with a lust for learning, Hudson holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law with a specialization in critical race theory. She also holds a Master of Arts in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto.
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