Lutze (loot-see) Segu, aka The Social Justice Doula, is an interdisciplinary public Black feminist scholar, cultural critic, and creative intellectual. She is the daughter of Haitian refugees and is a first-generation Haitian-American from Miami. Lutze is an anti-racist feminist educator consultant who helps individuals and organizations operationalize their social justice values using a gender liberation framework. Lutze holds a Master’s in Social Work from Barry University and is a doctoral candidate at the University of British Columbia, studying Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at The Social Justice Institute. She is currently writing her dissertation, where one of the themes she explores is Black feminism as her civic spiritual practice. Lutze, aka “The Social Justice Doula,” does digital Black feminist consciousness-raising work and popular education online on social media. Lutze loves the internet and thinks and theorizes about online culture, trends, and patterns, which has seeped into and changed our offline relationships and sense of self and social justice non-profit work. Lutze is a writer who thinks deeply about social justice, pop culture, and feminism and publishes a newsletter titled “Theory + Practice = Praxis.” All the work that Lutze does is rooted in a Black feminist perspective, a woman of color feminism, Indigenous feminism, and Black revolutionary love ethic.
