Tevin McDaniel

Pronouns: he/him/his

Hometown: Midwest City, OK

Tevin McDaniel is a community builder, organizer, and poet who keys in on the ways community can be the focus of the work of social justice, a future where our communities rely less heavily on their government. Tevin is a co-founder of Foundation for Liberating Minds (FLM) and serves now as the Community Building Coordinator. He currently leads FLM’s We, The Eastside Initiative, building and creating space for people of the Eastside of Oklahoma City to come and express what it is they want for change. He is also in charge of the community building and organizing for FLM, making sure that those impacted by systems have the available resources to live in a comfortable way. 

Tevin has performed his poetry at places like Ice event center and East Side Pizza House. In 2016, Tevin graduated from Heritage Hall Upper School and earned a scholarship to the United States Air Force Academy. He then started to pursue his passion for organizing and activism, where he stood for Food Justice in Texas, and Black Lives in OKC, and facilitated professional development trainings at high schools, and with religious and organizing groups around the OKC area. Tevin is an anime enthusiast and lover of Heath Ledger’s Joker.