Career
She has organized around the issues of health, student services and rights, rights for domestic workers, ending police brutality, anti-racism, and violence against transport* and gender non-conforming people of color. Her writing has been published by The Guardian, The Nation, The Feminist Wire, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post and truthout.org. She is the Director of Special Projects at the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Black Lives Matter Garza, in collaboration with Opal Tometi and Pattrisse Cullors, created the Black Lives Matters movement.
Garza is credited as having inspired the slogan when after the acquittal of George Zimmerman she posted on Facebook: "Black people. I love you. I love us.
Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter" which Cullors then shared with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Garza"s organizing of Black Lives Matter was spurred on by her witnessing the constant unchallenged or punished murder of innocent Black people by Police and the gross racial disparities within the United States. criminal justice system, in her opinion.
Garza lead the 2015 Freedom Ride to Ferguson, organized by Cullors and Darnell Moore that launched the building of BlackLivesMatter chapters across the United States.
Garza, as a queer woman with a bi-racial Transgender spouse has been praised for her work bringing together diverse groups of people for the cause. Other Work Acts of Protest Garza participated in an attempt to stop a Bay Area Rapid Transit train for four and a half hours, a time chosen to reflect the time that Michael Brown"s body was left in the street after he was killed. The protesters stopped the train for an hour and a half by chaining themselves both to the inside of the train and the outside, making it impossible for the door to close.
The disruption lasted for an hour and a half, only ending when police removed the protestors by dismantling part of the train.