Asha Ransby-Sporn is a Chicago-based community organizer and writer who has led on both winning issue-based and political campaigns, built movement organizations, and is deeply committed to Black, left social movements.

She was a co-founder of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), served as Director of Organizing for anti-war youth organization Dissenters, co-created a citywide mass organizing campaign to Defund the Chicago Police Department, and ran the South Side field program for Brandon Johnson’s winning mayoral campaign in 2023 with United Working Families.