Dykee Gorrell (she/her) is a queer black transwoman from Los Angeles California. She is the Assistant Director of Leadership Programming and Advancement at the Alene Moris Women's Center in Seattle Washington. Her introduction to community care and support was as an LGBTQIA+ youth coalition organizer in high school for Connect to Protect, Los Angeles (C2PLA). After entering Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts, she became a lead organizer for the student group Decolonize Media Collective, a group dedicated to documenting and archiving black political movements and black resistance around the world. Through her organizing at Hampshire College with prison divestment and documenting the Ferguson Uprising, she was able to connect with local and national community organizations like Out Now, Black Lives Matter 413, and Dignity and Power Now. Both her organizing and lived political experiences would go on to influence both her studies and research.

Using legal scholarship, historiography, and Black feminist theory, as an undergraduate student she was able to extend her understanding of surveillance and carceral logic to black transgender women. She carried over her passion for those studies at the  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where she tackled the legacies of colonialism and eugenics through data science, technology, and libraries. Now, she is working on her Ph.D. at the School of Information at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dykee has culminated her interest in her investigations in the histories of science and technology, information infrastructure, and digital media’s impact on black trans communities around the world. 

"Resource reallocation is the name of the game. It is how we redistribute wealth back into the hands of oppressed people. I am proud to sit on the board of an organization like PrideXtended that make material changes in the lives of  Black transwomen without restriction."