Amid all the chants, Travonna Thompson-Wiley searched for a voice. Someone who could guide her next steps.
The Seattle native had never considered herself an activist before the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. But after the video, the one she and so many others couldn’t get through, she’d seen enough. Felt enough. On May 30, 2020, she streamed downtown with thousands of others to protest for Black lives.
Outside the Nordstrom corporate building where she once worked, Thompson-Wiley couldn’t find a leader. She followed the crowd to I-5, then up to Capitol Hill. She listened closely to stories of suffering and
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