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Makini Chisolm-Straker

Makini Chisolm-Straker

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Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH is a policy-based reparations specialist, with a background in public health and domestic policy. A former White House Fellow and visiting professor of history at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Makini’s work focuses on reparations to Black and Indigenous people in what is now the United States. By centering the populations that are the foundation of the nation's wealth, Makini proposes structural changes that value and bring us toward communal abundance.
In high school, Makini played volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse. In undergrad she started playing rugby and as been playing ever since.

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