DeRay Mckesson
publication date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 (part of Winter 2016)
category: 
Activism
clue: He quit his job as a school administrator to become a full-time activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, launching WeTheProtestors.org and lecturing at Yale.
difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Justin Woods, Samir Mehta, LaVonne Lemler, Chris Lemler, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Richard Slominsky, Mike Rothstein, and Stan Iwanchuk
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