Lindsay began her own activism with the Philadelphia Student Union in 1996, helping to organize city-wide walkouts against systemic racism in school funding when she was just 12 years old. At age 17 in 2001, she became the first National Youth and Student Coordinator for the A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition and was soon a nationally recognized young leader in the anti-war movement. As a young activist and anti-war leader, she frequently appeared on C-Span and was profiled in the Washington Post, NPR, CNN and the Crisis Magazine (magazine of the NAACP). She spent over a decade with A.N.S.W.E.R., helping to build local and national campaigns for racial justice, immigrant rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and more, all over the US.

In 2012 she ran a grassroots Presidential campaign focused on highlighting issues of poverty and systemic oppression. This campaign earned her recognition as one of Jezebel.com’s 25 Kick Ass and Amazing Women We Love. Coverage of this campaign was also featured in The Root, The Feminist Wire and many other publications. It was recently noted in an article by History.com, “Black Women Who Have Run for President”.

One of Lindsay’s proudest achievements is serving as a lead organizer in the historic Million Hoodies Los Angeles March for Trayvon Martin in 2013, part of a nationwide uprising that inaugurated a new movement for Black lives. 

Peta Lindsay has a B.A. in History and African American studies from Howard University and she earned her MAT from USC in 2014. Lindsay has been teaching in Los Angeles for 7 years, in that time she has taught: US History, AP US History, Government, Economics, Ethnic Studies, Introduction to Social Justice Activism and African American Studies. She led a team that won a California Civic Learning Award at the level of Distinction in 2017. She has also served as a union rep and President of a CTA Teacher’s Union Local: LALA United.

Lindsay has collaborated with leading educational organizations like the UCLA History-Geography Project, the UC Davis History Project, the ONE Archives Foundation and the Zinn Education Project, in leading trainings and creating classroom resources that center multicultural, people’s history and movements for justice and liberation. Since January of 2021 she has been a featured speaker at educational conferences held by: Howard University, Harvard University, UC Davis and the Carter Center for K-12 Black Education. She also frequently provides culturally-responsive feedback for Black history curriculum and educational materials. Email to inquire about rates.

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Lindsay believes in teaching for liberation. She founded the Ida B. Wells Education Project in June of 2020 out of an urgent need to empower educators to connect and build the struggle for Black liberation from classrooms around the US. She currently serves as Executive Director for this project and is committed to connecting students and educators who want to unite and fight racism in school and beyond.