Speakers
Pam McMichael
Director, Highlander Research and Education Center
Knoxville, TN
Keynote Speaker at 2006 Annual Meeting
"The World in Our Hands"
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 has been a national fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation's leadership project to address the growing crisis in U.S. democracy.
Pam's full-length play, Tender, brought together an inter-racial, cross-class, inter-generational coalition of artists and activists to work together. "A powerful work about life and death, class and color, and a rural Kentucky family's love for their mother," Tender was produced at the Kentucky Center for the Arts and opened Peace with Justice Week at the Fine Arts Center in Henderson, Kentucky.
Pam has a B.A. in Psychology from Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky and M.A.T. from the University of Louisville
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