morris mock
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Morris Mock, Jr. was born in Natchez, MS and attended North Natchez High School then Calloway High School in Jackson. He attended Jackson State University where he majored in Music. Morris is a graduate of the Mississippi Black Leadership Institute and one of the founding members of Nissan Organized Workers (NOW) at the Nissan factory in Canton, MS, where he has been a worker-organizer for over 15 years. He is also an illustrious member of AF&M. Morris, whose passion is labor rights and organizing, states, "There's no peace without unity!" Morris serves as Board President and a volunteer strategic visioning and organizing partner advancing workers rights and climate, racial and economic justice.
Lisa Foster
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Lisa Foster is a native of Petal, MS. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a Masters degree in War & Society (History) and a minor in Race & Ethnicity. Prior to graduate school, she spent ten years in the museum field and a total of fifteen years in non-profits. She was awarded the 2017 Mississippi Historical Society’s prize for best Mississippi History Now website article as co-author of the feature story “Jefferson Davis Soldier Home – Beauvoir.” She is a graduate of the Community Research Fellows Program at Millsaps; a gig worker in the Hattiesburg area and a caregiver. Lisa serves as Board Vice-President and Community Organizer in her native Pine Belt region for MRC.
leo carney
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Leo Carney, a chef in Biloxi, is the Executive Director and co-founding member of the ADOS Mississippi/Empowerment Project, and the Communications Lead at the ADOS Advocacy Foundation. Leo is the Communications Lead for Mississippi People’s Movement and facilitator for their Rapid Response Team. His work focuses on sustainability, food sovereignty, housing security and environmental and economic justice. Leo is also an accomplished author. He won the 2022 Society of Professional Journalists’ Diamond Award for Racism and Police Violence in Today’s Mississippi as columnist for the Mississippi Free Press. Follow him on Twitter at @chefcarney.
noelle nolan-rider
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Noelle is a native of Natchez, MS and founded Vote Your Pride with her wife, Rachel in 2020. In addition to organizing Vote Your Pride, Noelle is a volunteer organizer in MRC's MS Gulf Coast Mutual Aid Collective. She is a fierce activist and organizer for QTGNC rights in Mississippi and is passionate about empowering the LGBTIA+ community with education around voting, voting rights and the electoral process as a tool for advancing queer, women, femme and trans liberation.
lea campbell
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Lea Campbell is founder of Mississippi Rising Coalition and Principal Organizer for MRC. Lea is a passionate advocate and organizer whose work in Mississippi centers around anti-racism and climate, gender and economic justice. Lea serves as Facilitative Lead of the Mississippi People’s Movement, an alliance of more than 20 grassroots groups across Mississippi moving around shared values and priorities to advance climate, racial and economic justice. ​Lea approaches social justice work through an intersectional lens grounded in the political analysis of the Black queer feminist movement and is inspired by poet Audre Lorde who wrote, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even if her shackles are different from my own.”