Valarie Kaur is building a movement to
reclaim love as a force for justice, healing, and transformation in America.
She believes the love ethic is essential to birthing a multi-racial democracy and sustainable future. She declares, “Revolutionary Love is the call of our times — the choice to leave no one outside our circle of care.” Today she leads the Revolutionary Love Project.
In the thick of the election season, Valarie and team launched the Revolutionary Love Bus Tour to 40+ cities across the country to ignite courageous action rooted in love. At every stop, the tour offers storytelling, music, ancestral wisdom, tools, and community-building. The fall tour has concluded, and you can visit the tour page to sign up for future tour dates and announcements.
The tour draws from Kaur’s new books Sage Warrior (presenting the wisdom of her Sikh ancestors) and World of Wonder (a picture book that brings Revolutionary Love to children) and her acclaimed best-selling memoir See No Stranger.
"A leading light of love and compassion… Her voice is essential."
— Isabel Wilkerson,
NYT bestselling author of Caste
BIO
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. Valarie burst into global consciousness when her Watch Night Service address went viral with 40 million views worldwide. Her question — “Is this the darkness of the tomb, or the darkness of the womb?” — is a beacon for people fighting for our future.
Valarie 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, she 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 earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School, and holds several honorary doctorates. She has created groundbreaking initiatives at the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and social justice, such as Groundswell, Faithful Internet, and the Yale Visual Law Project. She has spoken widely and has been a regular TV commentator on MSNBC and contributor to CNN, NPR, PBS, the Hill, and the Washington Post. In 2021, Valarie led the People’s Inauguration, inspiring millions of Americans to renew their role in building a healthy, multiracial democracy. 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.
Valarie’s books envision a world of liberation, and show us how to get there. Her #1 LA Times bestseller SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love is based on her celebrated TED talk. Her children’s book WORLD OF WONDER inspires the next generation. Her latest book SAGE WARRIOR is an epic journey into Sikh wisdom and a spiritual handbook for apocalyptic times, accompanied by an original musical album by Sonny Singh.
Her films chronicle the struggle and resilience of communities of color. DIVIDED WE FALL was the first film to chronicle hate violence against Sikhs, Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians after 9/11. THE WORST OF THE WORST builds the case to end solitary confinement. OAK CREEK documents how a Sikh community responded to a mass shooting with courage and hope.
Valarie’s vision is deeply inspired by her Sikh faith. A daughter of Punjabi farmers, Valarie grew up on the farmlands of California, where her family has lived for more than a century. Her grandfather gave her Sikh wisdom through stories and songs that showed the way of the sant-sipahi, sage-warrior. The sage loves; the warrior fights — it is a path of Revolutionary Love.
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.” Today 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, putting love into action.
VALARIE KAUR is a renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, educator, innovator, and best-selling author of SEE NO STRANGER. She is the founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, where she leads a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice. Valarie burst into global consciousness when her Watch Night Service address went viral with 40 million views worldwide. Her question — “Is this the darkness of the tomb, or the darkness of the womb?” — is a beacon for people fighting for our future.
Valarie became an activist when a Sikh father and family friend Balbir Singh Sodhi was the first person murdered in hate violence in the aftermath of 9/11. Since then, she has led visionary campaigns to tell untold stories and change policy on issues ranging from hate crimes to solitary confinement to digital freedom. In 2021, she led the People’s Inauguration, inspiring millions of Americans to renew their role in building a healthy, multiracial democracy.
Today, the Revolutionary Love Project equips communities with practical tools to transform the nation from inside out. In Fall 2022, Valarie was honored at the White House in the first-ever Uniters Ceremony, recognizing her as a prophetic leader whose work is healing America
Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School, and holds several honorary doctorates. She has created groundbreaking initiatives at the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and social justice, including Groundswell Movement, Faithful Internet, and the Yale Visual Law Project. She speaks widely and has been a regular TV commentator on MSNBC and contributor to CNN, NPR, PBS, the Hill, and the Washington Post. Her debut book SEE NO STRANGER became a #1 LA Times bestseller and expands on her “blockbuster” TED talk.
Valarie’s vision is deeply inspired by her Sikh faith. A daughter of Punjabi farmers, Valarie grew up on the farmlands of California, where her family has lived for more than a century. Her grandfather gave her Sikh wisdom through stories and songs that showed the way of the sant-sipahi, sage-warrior. The sage loves; the warrior fights — it is a path of revolutionary love.
Valarie’s first children’s book, WORLD OF WONDER, and her much-awaited book of wisdom, SAGE WARRIOR, released in Fall 2024.
In Fall 2024, Valarie also embarked on the Revolutionary Love Bus Tour across the U.S.. The fall tour has concluded, and you can visit the tour page to sign up for future tour dates and announcements.
