Sinnamon Love

Independent Scholar | Activist | Organizational Consultant

Brooklyn, NY | LinkedIn

UN Consultative Status (ECOSOC) · AVN Hall of Fame · Urban X Hall of Fame

Advocacy

I hold UN Consultative Status (ECOSOC) and serve on the Steering Committee of the National Survivor Network and the Survivor Advisory Group of Freedom Network USA's Survivor Re-Entry Program. My advocacy spans local, state, federal, and international policy — from the New York State Legislature to the United States Congress and Senate, the White House, and the United Nations.

Areas of Expertise

Sex Work Policy & Decriminalization · Survivor-Centered Organizational Design · Meaningful Engagement · Disability Justice · Race & Gender Studies · Community Care · Anti-Carceral Frameworks · Harm Reduction

Current Roles & Advisory Positions

2020 — Present

2022 — Present

Current

Founder & Executive Director | BIPOC Collective (2020 — Present)
National organization providing financial assistance, mental health resources, crisis support, and peer-to-peer education to Black and Brown sex workers in the formal and informal sexual economy.

Steering Committee Member | National Survivor Network (2022 — Present)
Serves on steering and restructure committees; facilitates BIPOC Member Group.

Survivor Advisory Group Member | Freedom Network USA, Survivor Re-Entry Program (Current)
Provides lived expertise to inform survivor reentry programming and policy.

Current

Archivist-in-Residence | Black Sex Workers Collective, Berlin (2026)
Appointed to develop a global digital archive of Black sex worker labor and curate the physical media library at the BSWC Berlin Community Center.

Certifications & Professional Development

2026

2024

Meaningful Engagement Organizational Coach Certification

Manage Successful Projects, The Management Center

Consulting & Coaching

2023

2022

Subject Matter Expert & Interview Participant | Equitable Care Certification
Contributed expertise to CEU curriculum development for mental health professionals working with sex workers.

Consultant | Beyond Do No Harm Initiative -- Interrupting Criminalization & Reframe Health and Justice
Contributed expertise on sex work, medical care, and criminalization.

Consultant | LA County Department of Health
Contributed expertise on MPox outreach within sex worker communities.

2021

Delphi Panel Participant | Boston University

Contributed to the development of porn literacy and sex education curricula through expert panel process.

Policy & Advocacy

Has presented testimony and participated in policy convenings at:

United Nations NGO CSW70, New York — Member State Delegate Meetings (2026)
Survivor Justice Worker Retreat, Havana, Cuba (with Survivor Society, 2024)
United Nations, New York — ICPD30, Session 11: Tech for Reaching the Furthest Left Behind: Innovations for Inclusive Development (panelist, 2024)
United Nations CSW67, Geneva (NGO observer, 2024)
United States Congress & Senate (with Free Speech Coalition)
The White House (with Freedom Network)
New York State Legislature, Albany (with Decrim NY)

White paper contributions include:

Pornography and media literacy in sex education
Criminalization of sex workers seeking medical care

Selected Lectures & Panels

2025

Freedom Network USA Human Trafficking Conference — How Survivor Reentry Project Supports Human Trafficking Survivors Impacted by Forced Criminality (panelist)
Sex Down South: Olivia Film Screening & Q&A - Perimenopause & Menopause Representation in Adult Media (guest speaker)
Adult Industry Forum, Berlin — The State of the Industry: Change, Pressure & Possibility (panelist)
Adult Industry Forum, Berlin - Book Presentation: Coming Out as a Porn Star, 2nd Edition (panelist)
Berlin Porn Film Festival: Olivia Film Screening & Q&A - Perimenopause, Menopause, & Aging Representation in Adult Film (guest speaker)

2024

Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference, Tulane University -- Digital Reflections on Black Interiority (panelist)
San Francisco Porn Film Festival, Yes Miss Love Film Screening & Q&A - Disability Representation in Adult Media
Archiving the Black Web Presents: A Black History of the Web and Archiving Our Existence (panelist)
Latinxxx Sexual Economies Symposium, Yale University (panelist)
XBiz Miami — Radical Acts of Caring (panelist)
Sex Worker Appreciation Day, TransEquity Consulting (panelist)

2023

Black Twitter Summit, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY (convening participant)
YNOT Summit, 2013 – 2023: An Industry Retrospective (panelist)
Living Liberation Conference, Center for Third World Organizing — Since the Fall of Roe: Survivor & Gender Justice Conversation (panelist)
UMass Dartmouth School of Law — Sex Work & Stigma (panelist)
University of Toronto, Cinema Studies — Adult Film History (guest lecture)

2022

International Whores Day, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (sex worker health fair producer)
Spiritual Herbalism Conference — Thriving through Transformation (panelist)
International Whores Day, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
UMass Dartmouth School of Law — Sex Work & Stigma (panelist)
University of Toronto, Cinema Studies — Adult Film History (guest lecture)
The New School - Sex Workers Built the Internet (panelist)
New England Sex Work Summit: Sex Work & Discrimination (panelist)
Washington University, St. Louis, Sex & Money (guest lecture)

2021

University of Toronto, Sexual Diversity & Sex Work Community Organizing (guest lecture)
SXSW: Tech Trends in Adult Entertainment (panelist)
8 Lives Vigil - Red Canary Song, New York City (speaker)
Tending the Garden: On Being a Survivor and Sex Worker (panelist)
Humble Bloom: Femme Sessions Roundtable (panelist)
University of Texas, Crip Conversations Speaker Series: A Panel on Sex Work and Disability Justice (panelist)
UMass Dartmouth School of Law, Sex Work & Stigma (panelist)
Northumbria and Birmingham City Universities: Porn Studies Journal (panelist)

2020

Black Feminist Summer School, BFSS After Hours: The Power of Pleasure (guest speaker)
UCSB, Film and Media Studies, Hollywood: Anatomy of an Industry (guest lecture)

Year TBC

UCLA: Sex Work, Abolition, and Urban Planning
D17: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Other Speaking Engagements

Emotional Regulation, Triggers, and Healthy Communication — Sucia NYC

Professional Affiliations

Member, Decrim NY
Member, Survivor's Agenda / Survivor Justice Network
Member, Free Speech Coalition
Member, Black Sex Workers Collective
Member, Best Practices Policy Project

Fellowships & Academic Appointments

Archiving the Black Web Fellow, Northeastern University (2023–2024)
Sex Worker Giving Circle Fellow, Third Wave Fund (2018, 2020)
Associated Artist Fellowship, Culture Push, New York City

Honors & Awards

2009 AVN Hall of Fame
2011 Urban X Awards Hall of Fame
2023 Urban X Award: Most Popular Sex Educator

Selected Media Appearances

GQ · Vanity Fair · The Hollywood Reporter · Cosmopolitan · The New York Times · Business Insider · Vice News · NPR / Marketplace · 1A on NPR · Complex · Forbes · Fast Company · NBC News · BuzzFeed News · British Glamour · FiveThirtyEight · Jezebel · Refinery29 · Guernica Magazine · Bitch Media · Honeysuckle Magazine · HIV Plus Magazine · Ms. Magazine · Yahoo Life · CounterPunch · NYU Disability Covid Chronicles · Nettavisen · The Indypendent · Missy Magazine

Selected Academic Citations

The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography — Ariane Cruz
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism — Heather Berg
The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender
Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers — Jamila M. Dawson
Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist
A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography
The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography
The Other Sex Work: The Feminist Academic Pornography Discourse
Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy
Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing
Pornography: A Philosophical Introduction
The Ethics of Sex: An Introduction

Full publications list and artistic CV available upon request.