Onyx Walker is a first-generation Queens born Jamaican American. Growing up in Brooklyn, he experienced the effect of over policing in low-income neighborhoods and the lack of quality education for young people. He has spent 10 years organizing locally and nationally on social issues like the School-to-Prison pipeline and housing for homeless youth.  

Young people have been at the forefront of all of his organizing work and peer advocacy work as there is no future without them. The many struggles that come with challenging established social stigmas as a young person is something he is keenly aware of and continues to break it down piece by piece.