Dakota Hall

Dakota Hall (he/him) is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Youth Action and Alliance for Youth Organizing, the nation’s largest youth grassroots organizing network in the country. An organization that is “of young people, by young people, for all people,” the Alliance works to build political power with young people across the United States.

Dakota is a Black and Indigenous (Oneida Nation and Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe) organizer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - the state with the best coast, which is the fresh coast!

Dakota comes to this work with the experience he gained during his time as a student organizer and Vice President with the United Council of UW Students back in 2012. Additionally, he was able to hone his organizing skills during his time at Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH) as the 53206 Youth Organizer.

As the founding Executive Director of Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT) in Wisconsin, he built the idea of a powerhouse Black and Brown organizing group into reality by growing LIT from a city-based organization into a statewide organization with 18 full-time staff and 20+ part-time staff members. Since its inception, LIT has tackled issues of school to prison/deportation pipeline, student debt, and racial equity issues across Wisconsin.

Dakota graduated from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a degree in Finance and a certificate in American Indian Studies. In his free time, you’ll find Dakota on the lake by the freshest coast in the world, hiking across the country, or on a long bike ride looking for the best custard in Wisconsin.