Matthew Glover

Matthew is a lifelong learner and educator who believes firmly in the power of political education as a means for our collective freedom. He is a practitioner of revolutionary Pan-Africanism, doing his best to walk in the footsteps of giants like Alice Kinloch and George Jackson. Like many Afrikans born and raised in the United States, Matthew has always sought answers to deep political questions centering on capitalism, imperialism, identity, and related phenomena. Ironically, while he has spent time in both college and law school, he finds that academic spaces have a tendency to police knowledge; he agrees with Dylan Rodriguez that it is instead crucial to “obsolete the academic” and ensure that knowledge and information travel freely, reaching all who want and/or need to access it. This approach is a huge part of what grounds Matthew’s approach to organizing. Two more principles ground Matthew: for one, having a collective approach to study and struggle; and most important of all, centering the populations most affected by oppression and ensuring they are the leaders in our fight for liberation.