BOLD PEOPLE

 
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Portia Allen-Kyle is a civil rights attorney and owner of the strategic consulting firm FuturaBold LLC. She has spent her career fighting for racial and social justice at the intersections of people, policy, and politics. Portia has a long track record living her values and fighting for a bold future. She has been pushing the envelope and changing the narrative on civil rights issues including criminal legal system reform, voting rights, and economic justice. Most recently, she was the co-architect of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s Douglass Plan campaign platform, the first comprehensive policy plan to specifically invest in Black America. She has also advocated on issues such as pretrial justice reform, police violence, reentry, voting rights, juvenile justice, and education.

  • Founder and Principal of FuturaBold

  • Associate Director of Law and Policy at Voting Rights Lab

  • Policy Advisor to Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg

  • National and state-level policy strategy as an Advocacy and Policy Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, with previous state- and local-level policy experience at the ACLU of Alabama and the ACLU of New Jersey

  • Lecturer in Sociology at Rutgers University and St. Thomas Aquinas College teaching courses on law and society, criminology, and race relations

  • Research Assistant at the National Association of Children in Poverty

  • Inaugural Higher Heights Senior Leadership Fellow and a 2019 Council of Urban Professionals Fellow

  • Graduate of Wellesley College, Columbia University, and Rutgers University School of Law-Newark

  • A New Jersey native, currently based in Brooklyn, NY

Through this endeavor she hopes to use her keen insight and analytical skills to facilitate change by working with companies and candidates to drive mission-aligned outcomes. Portia’s expertise, combined with her energetic and agile approach, has equipped her to help organizations and individuals translate vision to action and bring values to life.