Now in his third season in Phoenix, Lubin is one of a collection of local professional athletes including the Phoenix Suns’ Devin Booker and Aron Baynes, the Phoenix Mercury’s Brianna Turner, and the Arizona Cardinals Patrick Patterson who have been active on social media calling for change, as well as other players and coaches within the USL Championship.

Lubin believes the voices of athletes will be essential to the efforts now being undertaken across the United States to both implement initial reform and also create a lasting impact with the next generation.

“It’s no longer ‘Shut up and Dribble,’” Lubin told Sanders. “Athletes have a voice, and I think they’re the ones who are going to inspire change in our kids, and our kids are the ones who are going to make the ultimate change in our system, in the Senate, in the House of Representatives, Government and everything. To have a voice and a platform, it’s taken a long time for everyone to come out and speak, but it’s happening now and it’s a huge change, I think.”