Beth Howard is the Rural Kentucky Campaign Director for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) where she is organizing transformational basebuilding campaigns in her beloved home state. She is from a working-class family in rural Eastern Kentucky and has over 15 years of experience in grassroots community organizing and leadership development. In 2019, she graduated from Catalyst Project’s Anne Braden program, a transformational anti-racist organizer training for white social-justice organizers where she made a commitment to organize her people in Appalachia. She is deeply committed to visionary organizing strategies to build a powerful multiracial working class people’s movement in Appalachia and the American South. She lives in Lexington, KY with her partner Andrew, their faithful dog Sandy, and their defiant cat Tadpole.