Kiilu Nyasha (formerly known as Pat Gallyot) was a former member of the Black Panthers’ Chapter in New Haven, Connecticut and of the legal defense team of Party Chairman Bobby Seale’s trial for murder and conspiracy. She is an international egalitarian. The mother of two adults, she has been in the struggle to free political prisoners, abolish the death penalty and the prison system; and an actionist in global liberation movements. Kiilu is currently a producer/programmer for KPOO, a Black listener- sponsored public radio station in San Francisco. She is one of the strongest and loudest voices demanding and working for the release of Hugo Pinell, Ruchell Magee and Romaine Chip Fitzgerald, three of the longest held political prisoners from the Panther era.
