Alexis McGill

Alexis McGill is the Executive Director of Citizen Change, a national, non-partisan and non-profit organization created to educate, motivate and empower young eligible voters. Citizen Change was founded by rapper entrepreneur Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. Prior to Citizen Change, she was the Political Director for the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN). HSAN is a non-profit, non-partisan, national coalition of Hip-Hop artists, entertainment industry leaders, education advocates, civil rights proponents, and youth leaders united in the belief that Hip-Hop is an enormously influential agent for social change which must be utilized responsibly and proactively to fight the war on poverty and injustice. Alexis McGill taught in the Department of Political Science at Yale University and in the Center for African American Studies at Wesleyan University while writing a dissertation on urban secession movements at Yale University. She has written and taught mostly on urban secession, black youth political participation and organizing the hip-hop generation.