Social Justice & Community Organizing

Social Justice & Community Organizing

In envisioning our first five years, the Greenspon Center engaged in issue-based community organizing by supporting campaigns that achieved significant successes in the realms of affordable housing, criminal justice, and restorative justice. To learn about our past wins, explore the following: Our Past Wins & Work, Affordable Housing, Immigrant Justice, Criminal Justice, Truth and Reconciliation, and Environmental Justice.

In envisioning our next five years, we recognize that our impact can be expanded by investing our resources in social justice and community organizing education. We are developing community-based participatory research that listens to and honors the experience of our Charlotte organizers and activists, past and present. We have shifted our focus to deepen and broaden Social Justice and Community Organizing (SJCO) capacity in Charlotte by offering open and accessible SJCO education to the Charlotte social justice community and beyond.

Meet Our Scholar Activists

Rev. Vahisha Hasan
Rev. Vahisha Hasan

Rev. Vahisha Hasan

Scholar Activist

Rev. Vahisha Hasan is a faith-rooted organizer working at the intersection of faith, social justice, and mental health. As executive director of Movement in Faith, Rev. Vahisha Hasan is deeply invested in ways activist and faith communities further healing and collective liberation. She is also the rapid response coordinator for TRACC4Movements (Trauma Response and Crisis Care) and director of SEAL Initiatives at American Baptist College (Social Justice, Equity, Advocacy, and Leadership). She is a powerful public speaker, transformative facilitator, social justice trainer, minister, and writer with a deeply prophetic voice and imagination for how faith communities can be an active part of healing and collective liberation.
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Rev. Vahisha Hasan
Holly Roach Knight

Holly Roach Knight

Scholar Activist

Holly Roach Knight is a long-time social justice organizer and recent recipient of two master’s degrees, a master’s degree in social justice & community organizing from Prescott College, and a master’s degree in contemplative education from Naropa University. She studies conflict in social change and is developing a body of work around navigating harm and repair in the organizing process. As a systems thinker for social change, Holly challenges us to learn from our organizing and consider how interconnected we are.
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