Yara Shahidi

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Summary

Yara Shahidi is an actor and producer known for black-ish and its spin-off grown-ish, with other notable roles including Tinker Bell in Peter Pan & Wendy. Her public comments have described representation of black and young women as a goal of her work, and she has said that Zoey Johnson was “my activism through art.” She founded the Eighteen x 18 campaign to encourage young people to vote, spoke at the March for Our Lives rally, and has publicly discussed feminism, racial inequality, trans rights, and police abolition. No public anti-woke stance is on record.