Arisha Hatch

Arisha Hatch is the Vice President and Chief of Campaigns at Color Of Change, leading campaigns on civic engagement, voting rights, criminal justice, and corporate and media accountability. Arisha is a leader and innovator in the racial justice movement, organizing Black People’s Brunches which brought together more than 12,500 people in 2018 and helping to set the organization’s agenda in 2019 and beyond. Since joining Color Of Change in 2012, she has ushered in some groundbreaking victories for Black communities – whether it be getting payment processors like Mastercard and PayPal to ban use of their platforms by white supremacists or persuading Saturday Night Live to add two Black women to its cast and writer’s room mid-season. Before coming to Color Of Change, Arisha worked as a lawyer and organizer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. She later served as National Organizing Director of the Courage Campaign, which lays the groundwork for progressive change in California.