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Cheryl Rivera is an editor, writer, and organizer in Brooklyn, but she’s a Southerner forever at heart. She edits Lux, a magazine of socialist politics and culture, and is their local abolitionist and anti-work man around town. 

She is a founder of the Crown Heights CARE Collective, a hyper-local abolitionist group seeking Black liberation and collective power through public forums, mutual aid, protest, direct action and crisis support. Previously she worked on the NYC Democratic Socialists of America’s Defund NYPD campaign, a COVID-19 mutual aid fund, and another abolitionist collective called Abolition Action. Cheryl is a 2023 Community Response Works fellow, a former Blue Ridge Labs fellow, and previously worked on preschool data and teacher development for the NYC Department of Education. She loves cities, walking, cows, and working on her mystery adventure text game.