Ría Thompson-Washington (they/she/elle) is an anti-racist activist, Afro-Latine, nonbinary Queer feminist living on unceded Nacotchtank known as Washington, DC. They have spent the last twenty years,  organizing and training Black and Latine people working on various campaigns in the Labor movement to Occupy Wall Street, and more recently, providing legal support to Movements. 

In 2015, Ría joined the National Lawyers Guild as a law student member. As a member of the DC NLG chapter, Ría is a legal observer, coordinator, and trainer. Currently, they serve on the NLG’s Mass Defense Steering Committee, and formerly as senior co-chair of The United People of Color Caucus. In 2021, Ría was awarded Legal Worker of the Year by the National Lawyers Guild for their work training legal observers across the country during the Uprisings of 2020 that erupted after the murder of George Floyd and Hulu made a short documentary about Ría’s work as a legal support organizer and trainer. 

Ría founded Rialistic Strategies, a boutique consulting firm that develops creative and strategic campaign plans and provides organizing strategies with training curricula for base-building organizations and their members. Before starting their consulting firm, Ría worked at the Redress Movement (Digital Organizing Director), Center for Popular Democracy (Senior Manager, Voting Rights & Democracy Campaigns), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Senior National Organizer, Voting Rights Project), and NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Paralegal/Litigation Assistant).