Amadee Braxton is an organizer, fundraiser and filmmaker whose lifelong commitment to justice informs her creative, professional and political work. Braxton's efforts have spanned youth development, AIDS and harm reduction, public education, reproductive rights, police brutality, fundraising and peace.

As an organizer and strategist, she has brought people together to meet, strategize and build power. As a trainer, she has mentored youth leaders and has trained organizers in fundraising skills.

In recent years, the focus of her work has been on movement building. She served in national leadership of the Black Radical Congress, an organization promoting education, dialogue and action around issues critical to Black people. Presently, Amadee is helping build a national GI resistance movement with Iraq Veterans Against the War, a Philadelphia-based organization with members in 43 states.

In addition to organizing, Amadee is a documentary filmmaker who has worked as lead researcher on the Emmy-nominated research team for W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996); as associate producer for NO! The Rape Documentary (2006); and as segment producer on the forthcoming Haytian Stories, a film on the history of U.S.-Haiti relations. Amadee is currently pursuing training to become a Reiki master.