Beth Howard

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Beth Howard

Beth Howard
Rural Kentucky Campaign Director
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

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.