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Shelby Chestnut

Co-Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

Shelby Chestnut is the Co-Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy at the New York City Anti-Violence Project. For over a decade, Shelby has been organizing with LGBTQ people, people of color, and low income communities to address violence, promote access to resources, and affect local policy change that is for and by the people most impacted by oppression. Shelby holds a BA from Antioch College and an MS from the New School. Shelby is an enrolled member of the Assinibouine Nation in Montana. Shelby currently calls Brooklyn, New York home.

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