Lynn Burnett is the creator of CrossCulturalSolidarity.com, The White Antiracist Ancestry Project, and Tracking This Authoritarian Moment and the Resistance To It. He facilitates an informal discussion group about resisting authoritarianism in the second Trump era, and offers workshops on lessons to be learned from White antiracist history. To join the discussion group and to learn about upcoming workshops, join Cross Cultural Solidarity’s Patreon.

Lynn spends much of his time interviewing freedom movement elders, and is currently working on a book with the last chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Phil Hutchings. He has also offered caretaking and end-of-life spiritual support to elders who have committed their lives to the freedom movements he admires. As a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, Lynn has especially worked in a caretaking capacity with elders who have lived at the intersections of dharma practice and freedom movements, including the radical radio host and comedian Wes “Scoop” Nisker, the climate justice and peace activist Joanna Macy, and the ecofeminist philosopher Susan Griffin.

Lynn’s commitment to racial justice history first developed as a teacher of incarcerated youth, when he saw the power of that history to help students grapple with some of the biggest questions they had about the world. His interest in Black and Brown solidarity originated as a public high school history teacher in Oakland, where he saw the power of that history to inspire his students and help them envision paths towards building a better world. His commitment to White antiracist history was born out of his immersion in Black Freedom Struggle history, which includes a century-long call for White people to organize other White people for racial justice, as a way to pull the rug out from under systems of racial inequity. Lynn sees these histories as providing crucial lessons for how we can fight back against this authoritarian moment, and build a stronger democracy that works for all peoples.

See Lynn Burnett’s collected writings here.