Anoa J. Changa (she/her) is the electoral justice staff reporter at Prism. As an organizer by nature and a lawyer by trade, Anoa has a strong sense of advocacy and justice.
Expanding on her experience as an attorney, Anoa has been a grassroots digital organizer and strategic advisor to several organizations. Since 2015 Anoa’s primary focus has been on building collaborative political spaces that fundamentally change the way communities and grassroots organizations engage with the social and political systems around us. Refusing to back down, and pushing past defensiveness and discomfort, Anoa continues to challenge progressives to build better discourse and approaches to winning.
Anoa is a movement journalist, deeply influenced by grassroots-led electoral organizing efforts. She is the host of the podcast “The Way with Anoa” tackling politics and current events through a Black progressive feminist perspective. Anoa has bylines in The Independent, The Nation, Dame Magazine, Huffington Post, and Rewire.News. She is a speaker, trainer, and presenter in progressive spaces.
Anoa received a B.A. in Sociology and a Master in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University. She was awarded a J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law where she was a W.E.B Dubois fellowship recipient.