Trey Walk (he/him) is a facilitator, strategist, and writer committed to love, Black liberation, and the freedom of all who live at the margins of society. Trey has partnered with organizations across the country to develop cutting-edge organizing and advocacy strategies, create narrative change projects, and build healthier organizations. He approaches his work with equal parts rigor and care.
Trey is currently the Democracy Researcher and Advocate in the US Program at Human Rights Watch. In this role he documents and challenges threats to voting rights, access to truthful information, and civic engagement, and he collaborates with movements working to promote robust multiracial democracy in the United States. Trey works in this role to shift media narratives and pressure policy makers to uphold civil and human rights.
Trey came to HRW from the Groundwork Project, where he managed the commitment of over $2 million of grant funding to grassroots community organizers in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. He developed advocacy training and capacity-building support for civic leaders in these states.
Prior to Groundwork, Trey was a project manager at the Equal Justice Initiative, where he facilitated EJI’s Community Remembrance Project, an effort to support advocates across the nation confront local histories of lynching and racial violence. Trey was a researcher and educator for EJI’s public history projects that link mass incarceration and the history of racial injustice in the U.S.
Fun stuff: Trey loves reading almost as much as he loves acquiring books. He dances whenever there’s a chance - bonus points if karaoke or Beyonce are involved. He attempts to keep up with pop culture while decreasing screentime. And he manages to keep some of his plants alive.