carlin@songsouth.org

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 other in local organizing and advocacy, including working as a research fellow experimenting with methods for doing racial justice informed by Black queer theology and ethics, and as a project director for an HIV/AIDS intervention program in Nashville. A graduate of Spelman College and Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Carlin has also served  as an adjunct professor at American Baptist College and Fisk University. At her core, Carlin values family, faith, and believes that liberation in our lifetime is possible. Unapologetically Black and Southern, Carlin is a lover of the Black women’s literary tradition, all things percussion and rural North Carolina sunsets.