Alexia Pitter

Alexia Pitter (sometimes referred to as Lexie Pitter) was born in Evanston, Illinois. She is a current resident of Maryland and attends Howard University. She is in her senior year and is working towards her Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Her father has been incarcerated since she was three and she grew up in a single-mother household. As she fights for the liberation of all Black and Brown people, she also fights for her father’s freedom from incarceration. Lexie can be found participating in local protests, food drives, and community outreach in Chicago, as well as D.C. Her focus is on abolition and the support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. She has worked with the Black Abolition Network, Blck Rising Organization, Black United Front, and YWCA’s Empowered Girls organization, a mentorship program for young ladies in the DMV area- and now she is working for FAMM. Whether it is volunteering for the John Walt Foundation, Project Giveback, or Safeshore DC her focus as an activist, poet and student is not only to give back to her community but to promote black liberation, equality, and a forward-moving justice system. In 2014 she performed her notable “I Can’t Breathe” poem at the opening of the Holocaust Museum: Race Are We So Different exhibit. In 2015 she received the Women of Achievement Award and has been featured in Another Magazine, Voyage Chicago, and recently the Chicago Tribune. Her daily goals are to promote unity, self-love, holistic mental health practices, and push for prison reform.