Valarie Kaur

VALARIE KAUR is a renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning documentary filmmaker, educator, faith leader, mother, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project. She became an activist when a Sikh American father in her community was murdered in hate in the aftermath of 9/11. For twenty-five years, Valarie has led visionary campaigns to tell untold stories – at the sites of mass shootings, inside America’s supermax prisons, in the wake of hate violence, and at detention camps from Tijuana to Guantanamo – winning policy change on issues ranging from hate crimes to solitary confinement. The communities she served taught her an essential ingredient to birthing a healthy future: love. Valarie’s speeches have reached millions worldwide, igniting a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice. Last fall, Valarie led the Revolutionary Love Bus Tour, a healing odyssey to 45+ cities across the United States with one message: “Revolutionary Love is the call of our times.”

A daughter of Punjabi Sikh farmers in California, Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School and holds several honorary doctorates. Her books envision a world rooted in the ethic of love – and show us how to get there. SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, a #1 LA Times bestseller based on her acclaimed TED talk; her children’s book WORLD OF WONDER; and her new book SAGE WARRIOR, an epic journey into Sikh wisdom and spiritual handbook for apocalyptic times. Today, the Revolutionary Love Project equips people with powerful tools to harness the love ethic for courageous action. Valarie was honored at the White House in the first-ever Uniters Ceremony in 2022, recognizing her as a visionary leader whose work is healing America.

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