Kamala Harris’ graphic designer Ana Rice has history of calling for arson, political violence

The lead graphic designer for the Harris for President campaign premiered the campaign’s new logo design this week, receiving millions of impressions and praise on X for the 24-hour rebranding.

But on the same account, the Brooklyn-based designer has a long history of urging political violence and crime.

“[M]e and my designers made this. [T]his is crazy,” wrote Ana Cherée Rice, 32, on Monday. Accompanying the post was the official new campaign logo declaring “Harris for President” in blue and red text. 

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Rice’s professional social media pages list her pronouns and her interest in diversity, inclusion and equity. But a scratch behind her public X profile “@theanarice,” where she regularly promotes her work, shows support for extreme political violence, a sympathy for communism and even hatred of the Democrats she is working for. 

As violent BLM-Antifa deadly rioting and arson attacks took hold in Minneapolis in late May 2020 after George Floyd died, Rice posted on then-Twitter, demanding her comrades “burn all that sh— down.”

The following day, on May 29, she was at a riot in New York City where she was detained by the NYPD.

A burned body was found in one of the businesses that was torched in Minneapolis.

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Rice repeatedly urged for arson attacks and violence in 2020 as the riots spread to different cities and states.

In June 2020, Rice posted: “[B]urn that sh— down, atlanta.”

And as Kenosha, Wisc. was marred by deadly political violence in August after the police shooting of violent knifeman Jacob Blake, Rice urged, “[B]urn all that sh— down, kenosha.” 

Rice also appeared to threaten gun violence. “[I] need a gun. because i’m not playing with ya’ll,” Rice tweeted on Aug. 23, 2020. 

On Aug. 26, Rice quote retweeted one of her past calls for arson attacks and added: “[A]gain. and again. and again.”

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By September 2020, Rice began urging rioters to loot. In one post, she talked about wanting to partake in the action to steal clothing. In April 2021, responding to a tweet that read, “Rioting works,” Rice added, “and looting.”

Despite doing graphic design work for Apple, Lululemon, Chase and other corporate clients, Rice declared in March 2023: “[I] hate capitalism.” Months later she followed up on the sentiment with a post stating, “[I] never have — and will never have — a problem with looting.”

Rice returned to urging more violence last year after the death of Jordan Neely on a subway in the Broadway-Lafayette Street station. Neely, who was acting erratically on the train, died after being put in a chokehold by a former Marine riding on the train. 

“[W]e should probably just burn all this sh— down,” Rice wrote on May 4, 2023.

Rice’s violent extremist posts ironically softly echo what her future boss, Kamala Harris, suggested about the riots at the time. 

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In a June 18, 2020 interview with Stephen Colbert about the ongoing violent riots across the U.S., Harris smiled and said: “They’re not gonna let up — and they should not.” Weeks before that, Harris infamously helped fundraise bail for violent Minnesota riot suspects. Shawn Michael Tillman, one of the beneficiaries of the Minnesota Freedom Fund, later murdered a man after he was bailed out by the group.

In July 2020 as the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Ore. was besieged nightly by Antifa rioters who tried to burn it down, Harris went on MSNBC to demand that then-President Trump immediately withdraw federal law enforcement from protecting the courthouse.

In addition to the posts advocating leftist political violence, Rice posted frequently about her hatred of the NYPD. “F— the nypd,” Rice posted often in angry rants. “[B]etween the police being called on black people…i’m angry. a lot,” Rice posted in 2018. But in September 2019, she urged people to call the police on a “Jewish club” outside her apartment for playing loud music. 

Rice had joined the Joe Biden for President campaign as a full-time design lead in June before being grandfathered into the same role for Harris’ presidential campaign. Rice was personally praised by the Biden deputy campaign manager this week for her work in quickly rebranding the website.

However, her posts at the time suggest she was less than thrilled to be working for Biden. “[I] got invited to interview to design for the president and now, i’m designing for the president,” Rice wrote on June 13, more than a month before Biden dropped out of the presidential campaign.

Responding to a person who asked her if she meant Biden, she wrote “yeah, that one,” followed up with a crying emoji.