Tsion Gurmu is an Ethiopian-American attorney, writer, and researcher specializing in migration, with a focus on gender and sexuality. She is the first Legal Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a national immigrant rights organization dedicated to people of African descent. BAJI engages in legal representation, grassroots organizing, advocacy, and cross-cultural alliance-building to address issues faced by Black immigrants, refugees, and their families in the U.S.