Highlander Research & Education Center Talk
"Veiw From the Hill" - A Conversation with the Director and Two Organizers from the Highlander Research and Education Center
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 7pm [Arrive 15 min early to be able to park and walk to theater; Dress in layers]
Place: The outdoor North Garden Theater at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
This is a Free Event • Please RSVP appreciated, but not required, to dhenson@oaec.org
Mónica Hernández
leads Highlander’s Pueblos de Latinamerica Project, which seeks to
develop Latino grassroots leadership and organizations in the
Southeast. She is also Chair of the Board of the Tennessee Immigrant
and Refugee Rights Coalition. A native of Mexico with roots in both
countries, Mónica joined the Highlander staff after working at the
Northern California Coalition for Immigration Rights in San Francisco
for 13 years. At the Coalition, Mónica worked in various capacities: as
a hotline operator, HIV prevention educator/program coordinator,
community education and action team member and co-director, and
executive director.
Pam McMichael
is the Director of Highlander. Pam is a Kentucky native and long time
social justice activist in her home community of Louisville. She is a
co-founder of SONG, Southerners on New Ground and for eight years
served as co-director of the organization. For two decades now, Pam’s
organizing and cultural work have focused on connecting people and
issues across difficult divides with particular focus on helping build
a strong anti-racist movement. She has extensive nonprofit
administrative and management experience in both social change and
social service organizations, and is a national fellow with the
Rockefeller Foundation’s leadership project to address the growing
crisis in U.S. Democracy.
Anasa Troutman
is Coordinator of Highlander’s Development Team. She began her career
working with soul music singers, writers and musicians in Atlanta,
including India Arie. She also served on the National Coordinating
Committee for the National Hip Hop Political Convention, as a member
organizer for the Institute for Policy Study’s Cities for Progress
Program, as the Urban Marketing Strategist for the Dennis Kucinich
campaign for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination, as Consulting
Producer for the Young Peoples Project’s “Finding Our Folk” Tour, and
as an organizer with the Progressive Majority’s Racial Justice Campaign.