Campaign Lead
Introducing Robert-John; that’s two words, one name. Very Southern, very sassy! Robert-John hails from the Deep South -born in Texas and raised in South Carolina. He has been throwing down with Southerners on New Ground since 2000. He…
Content Creation Coordinator
Hailing from Memphis, TN, Rolynné Anderson (she/her) serves an eclectic blend of multi-hyphenated creativity that she especially infuses into her work at SONG as a Content Creation Coordinator. Rolynné is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with…
Communications Manager
Auburn Wideman (she/hers) is a proud native and resident of South Carolina, a self-proclaimed future Jeopardy champion, voracious reader and consumer of content, and sports fanatic.
A proud alumna of the University of South Carolina (go cocks!), Auburn…
Membership Manager
Hailing from Charleston, South Carolina, Lorie Bryant has a fervent passion for the Southern things in life. Lorie is a creative arts enthusiast, natural storyteller, conversationalist, avid outdoor explorer, and indoor gardener. Within her twelve years as a…
Campaign Lead
Angela Henderson is a lifelong student of anti-colonial struggle and internationalism hoping to live the life she plays about. Growing up in the suburbs of Nashville TN, she observed pitfalls of class contradictions as a young Black person. As…
Co-Director
Carlin Rushing joined SONG’s staff as Regional Membership Lead in 2018, after having co-built the Nashville SONG chapter and iterated on our grief and spirit care organizing. Carlin’s work experience involved having one foot in the academy and the…
Systems Manager
D is a Black bi-genderqueer Southerner from Memphis who briefly lived in New Jersey before returning home. After 12 years as an academic librarian at a predominantly white institution, D left academia to pursue authenticity and community-driven work.…
Operations Manager
Hieu Tran (any pronouns) — Born and raised in the Viet diaspora on Monacan, Powhatan, and Chickahominy lands, Hieu comes from various SONG organizing formations, including statewide listening sessions, the 2011 Organizing Schools and chapter campaigns, as well…
Communications Director
Hunter King (they/them) is a white, trans, working-class-raised abolitionist organizer in Durham, NC. Passionate about transformative justice and community self-determination, they are dedicated to defending and creating spaces where we can collectively build for liberation.
Before rooting in the…
Co-Director
Jade Brooks joined SONG in 2009, when she first moved to the South. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Jade is a white gay person and comes from a lineage of Jews, Quakers, single moms, hippie types, and deep dykes. Over the past 15…
