Valarie Kaur

VALARIE KAUR is a renowned social justice leader, lawyer, best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, faith leader, mother, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project. She became an activist when a member of her community – a Sikh American father – was murdered in the racial violence that followed 9/11. In the last twenty-five years, Valarie has led visionary campaigns for justice – in the wake of hate murders, at the sites of mass shootings, inside America’s supermax prisons, and at detention camps from Tijuana to Guantanamo. The communities she served taught her an essential ingredient to birthing a healthy future: love. Valarie now leads the Revolutionary Love Project, igniting a national movement to reclaim love as a force for justice, healing, and transformation.

Valarie’s debut book SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love is a #1 LA Times bestseller based on her acclaimed TED talk. Her children’s book WORLD OF WONDER inspires the love ethic in the next generation. And her latest book SAGE WARRIOR is an epic journey into Sikh wisdom and a spiritual handbook for apocalyptic times.

A daughter of Punjabi Sikh farmers in California, Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School and holds several honorary doctorates. In 2022, Valarie was honored at the White House in the first-ever Uniters Ceremony, recognizing her as a visionary leader whose work is healing America. Since Fall 2024, Valarie has led the Revolutionary Love Tour, a healing odyssey to 65 cities across the United States, igniting one message: “Revolutionary Love is the call of our times.” Valarie lives in Los Angeles where – in the wake of wildfires, ICE raids, or militarized crackdown of protests– she is often found in the streets with her community, putting love into action.

Website: valariekaur.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/valariekaur/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/valarie.kaur.page

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