Millennial Activists United
Millennial Activists United (MAU) is social justice organization in the U.S., based in Ferguson Missouri. The group works to end racism as well as police brutality in the United States. History The group was founded primarily by Brittany Ferrell, Alexis Templeton, and Ashley Yates following the police shooting of Michael Brown in August, 2014. The three quit their jobs to work on the organization full-time. MAU has worked at educating the public and organizing rallies and protests. MAU is associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. They encourage more young women to get involved in activism, particularly African American women. The founders of MAU wanted to get millennials more involved in activism, and believe that using means of communication that millennials use, such as Twitter, would have a larger impact on the issues they wanted to campaign about. Yates said in a 2014 NPR interview, "There were no other organizations out there that were doing the work that we wanted to do, that had the type of people - younger people, that were utilizing the tools that we were utilizing so effectively to get the word out and really become our own media." Before naming themselves MAU, the group were