Kamm Howard is a national and international reparations scholar and activist working for over 20 years building grassroots movements to obtain reparations for African descendants in the United States. In 2022, Howard founded Reparations United to provide unity in action across the reparations landscape in America. Having earlier authored a pamphlet, “Laying the Foundation for Local Reparations: A Guide for Providing National Symmetry for Local Reparations Efforts, that gave guidance to numerous activists around the country in establishing local and state commissions and task forces. As a co-convenor of the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing, Kamm led a team to Rome, Italy, to deliver a Reparations Presentment, outlining the crimes of the Catholic Church and redress due to the African world. He serves as a Commissioner of the National African American Reparations Commission where in 2017 he led in revising the federal legislation H.R. 40 – a bill to establish a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. This bill was used for the California Reparations Task Force and other state and local legislations. In addition to being the lead writer for revising the federal HR 40 bill, Kamm wrote the Chicago, and State of Illinois reparations legislation that created the Chicago Reparations Subcommittee and the State of Illinois Reparations Commission and was an advisor in crafting the New York legislation. Kamm was selected to give testimony before the U.S Congress House of Representatives on HR 40 which led to the historic vote that passed the bill out of the House Judiciary Committee. Also, he sits on the Boards of First Repair – founded by Robin Rue Simmons of Evanston, Illinois, and Global Black started by Dr. Amara Enya, while also serving on the advisory councils of the African American Redress Network (AARN) and the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved, or DSLUE. In 2005 Kamm joined NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, and served as the National Male Co-Chair form 2017-2022.