Blair Overstreet joined the ACLU-SDIC in 2023 as the Central San Diego organizer and is part of the Advancing Justice issue team. She is a committed advocate for racial and economic equity and served for many years as the San Diego chapter lead of Showing Up for Racial Justice, an organization that focuses on educating and mobilizing white people to fight inequality. In Blair’s decade-long teaching career, she helped her students understand the systems of inequality in our world and empowered them to go out and change them. Additionally, Blair is a cofounder of the Dede McClure Community Bail Fund, an organization supporting those held in jail simply because they can’t afford to pay bail, with an organizing eye towards ending cash bail.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she became a Harmonizer (core leadership) for We All We Got San Diego, a mutual aid group providing food, rent relief and political empowerment to those most impacted, including our BIPOC and immigrant neighbors, and neighbors with disabilities. Blair has worked locally in multiracial coalitions on issues such as police accountability, humane immigration practices and affordable housing. Blair facilitated the Invest in San Diego Families Coalition as an organizer at the Center on Policy Initiatives, bringing people power and voices to the county, and they have trained up other young organizers through the Students for Economic Justice curriculum.
Blair was born and raised in Mississippi, and though her racial and economic justice lens has been forming since a young age, their movement experience has been here in the trenches in San Diego over the last 10 years. She’s lived all over Central San Diego and believes strongly in grassroots, community-based organizing, and neighborhoods where people look out for each other and build community power.
