Lj Presents: Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 33 year old, Affrilachian (Black
Appalachian), working class woman, born and raised in Southeast
Tennessee. She is the Co-Executive Director of the Highlander
Research & Education Center in New Market, TN. She has served
as president of the Black Affairs Association at East Tennessee
State University and the Rho Upsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc. She is a long-time activist working around issues
of mountaintop removal mining, and environmental racism in
central and southern Appalachia, and has served on the National
Council of the Student Environmental Action Coalition. She is an
active participant in the Movement for Black Lives and is on the
governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly.


 Twitter: @hendersonaw0604 





 Raised in Texas, Germany and North Carolina, Rev. Allyn
Maxfield-Steele’s movement work has included solidarity struggles
with Thai people’s movements, work as an educator and organizer
in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and a range of support for
front-line struggles in Nashville, Tennessee, and throughout the
South and Appalachia. As a member of the Educational Network for
Global and Grassroots Exchange (ENGAGE), Allyn was a member of
Highlander’s 2010 Threads cohort and served as an adult ally for
the 2010 Seeds of Fire youth program. He joined Highlander’s
Board of Directors in 2011, where most recently he has served as
chair of the board. An ordained minister in the Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ), Allyn has served congregations in Juneau,
Alaska, Nashville, and Springfield, TN. Allyn’s focus and
interests lie at the intersection of radical pastoral care,
institutional transformation, dismantling toxic white
masculinities, and liberation-driven ministry and movement
building, especially in rural and small town communities. Allyn
holds a B.A. in History from Wofford College (SC) and a Masters
of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School. He comes to
Highlander from the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, where
he has served as a member of the education team. Highlander
research center 





 Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing
and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with
people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability,
supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their
own destiny. Through popular education, language justice,
participatory research, cultural work, and intergenerational
organizing, we help create spaces — at Highlander and in local
communities — where people gain knowledge, hope and courage,
expanding their ideas of what is possible. We develop leadership
and help create and support strong, democratic organizations that
work for justice, equality and sustainability in their own
communities and that join with others to build broad movements
for social, economic and restorative environmental
change.  


Twitter: @HighlanderCtr


 https://www.highlandercenter.org/our-story/mission/ 


You can check me out on my website at ljeffreymoore.com 


Music Featured on the Show: Intro  I dunno by grapes (c)
copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
(3.0) license.  http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
Ft: J Lang, Morusque  


Outro  The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
license.  http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628
Ft: Apoxode