Reuben Riggs

Reuben Riggs is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, and an organizer with St. Louis Students in Solidarity. He is motivated by a desire for a just society based on the value of human life rather than the value of a dollar. As a student, he studies how humans fit into a broken world through anthropology and African-American studies. As an organizer he mobilized students in protests across St. Louis, and campaigned against his school’s contributions to systemic oppression. Lessons he learned from communities like St. Louis’s predominately black 22nd Ward guide his work in the struggle.