Thousands of local social justice organizers passed away this year. People doing crucial work in their communities, whose deaths didn’t make the headlines. On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll hear about some of the fallen heroes of 2015.

Featured Fallen Heroes

• Grace Lee Boggs, activist, philosopher and movement builder
• Danny Schechter, author and media critic
• John Warshow, anti-nuclear campaigner and hydro power developer
• Emiliano Amor Mataka, Environmental Justice activist, co-founder Valley Improvement Projects
• Hashem Al-Azzeh, Palestinian peace activist
• Juan Evans, trans activist
• Hank Williams, Platform Summit founder
• Shannon Williams, Sex Workers Outreach Project board co-chair
• Dori Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education