Malkia Amala Devich-Cyril (born May 2, 1974)[1] is a poet and media activist best known for spearheading national grassroots efforts of the Net Neutrality campaign,[2] framing the discourse on protecting net neutrality as shifting away from the notion of "media democracy" and instead as a case of "media justice."
They are the executive director of the Center for Media Justice,[3][4] and a co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network.
Devich-Cyril's writings on media activism frequently appear in national publications such as Politico, the Huffington Post,[5] and The Guardian[6] Creative writing, including poetry and short-stories, have been published in anthologies such as Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing,[7] Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café,[8] and In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers.
Devich-Cyril was the spouse of comedian and editor Alana Devich-Cyril, and child of Janet Cyril, an activist in the Black Panther Party.
[9] Born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Cyril learned to read at the Liberation Bookstore in Harlem.