Andrea Ritchie

Andrea J. Ritchie is a writer, lawyer, and activist for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence.[1][2] She is the author of Invisible No More, a history of state violence against women of color.

Andrea Ritchie
Ritchie in 2018
Alma materCornell University
Howard University
OccupationAuthor, lawyer, activist
Notable work
Invisible No More

Education

Ritchie attended Cornell University and Howard University School of Law.[3] She clerked for Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[4]

Career

Ritchie is a Researcher-in-Residence at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Center for Research on Woman.[5] Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, and Essence.[6][7][8] In 2018, Ritchie co-authored the report SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color with Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum (Haymarket 2016).[9]

Invisible No More

In 2017, Ritchie published Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.[1][10] In it, she gives a history of often-obscured state violence against women of color in the United States, beginning in the colonial period and continuing through the present, discussing how the historical precedent established current conditions.[11] She ties practices in colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow to contemporary policing frameworks including broken windows policing and the wars on drugs, immigration, and terror.[12] In a review for Policing and Society, Robert Nicewarner found four major contributions Ritchie made with the book: demonstrating the historically-contingent and structural nature of police violence against women of color; the development of “mixed” methodology interweaving statistics and personal stories; demonstrating the insufficiency of police response to violence against women of color; and demonstrating the “dire need to resist and reform” these issues.[12]

References
  1. Corley, Cheryl (2017-11-05). "'Invisible No More' Examines Police Violence Against Minority Women". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  2. Ritchie, Andrea J.; Maynard, Robyn (2020-04-09). "Black Communities Need Support, Not a Coronavirus Police State". Vice. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  3. "Andrea Ritchie". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  4. "Andrea Ritchie: Policing Gender, Policing Sex, Policing RaceEvents". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. "2018 Women's History Month Keynote Lecture presented by Andrea J. Ritchie | Institute for Women's Studies". iws.uga.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  6. Ritchie, Andrea J. "How a Violent, Viral Arrest Changed Dajerria Becton's Life". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  7. Ritchie, Andrea J. (2017-07-21). "Opinion | A Warrant to Search Your Vagina". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  8. Kaba, Mariame; Ritchie, Andrea J. (July 16, 2020). "We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver". Essence. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  9. Crenshaw, Kimberle (2018-06-20). "SAY HER NAME: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women". aapf.org/. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  10. Haynes, Christina S. (2019-09-01). "Andrea J. Ritchie, Invisible No More: Policing Violence against Black Women and Women of Color". The Journal of African American History. 104 (4): 714–717. doi:10.1086/705274. ISSN 1548-1867.
  11. Tensley, Brandon. "'Invisible No More' Is a Chilling History of Police Violence Against Women of Color". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  12. Nicewarner, Robert L. (2019-09-02). "Invisible no more: police violence against Black women and women of color". Policing and Society. 29 (7): 869–871. doi:10.1080/10439463.2019.1650746. ISSN 1043-9463.
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