Nay’Chelle Harris
Template:TOCnestleft Nay’Chelle Harris is a member of Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), a St. Louis-based organization working at the intersections of economic, climate, and racial justice in the region. As a member she’s volunteered on a variety of campaigns, from coordinating Ferguson Jail Support and the St. Louis Legal Collective to exposing local prison profiteers and municipal court corruption with Decarcerate St. Louis. Under MORE’s Power Behind the Police campaign, Nay’Chelle’s most recent work involves ensuring fossil fuel corporations like St. Louis based Peabody Energy are held accountable to workers and impacted communities in the wake of bankruptcy and divestment, as the world transitions from fossil fuels to truly clean energy.[1]
It Takes Roots People's Caravan
It Takes Roots People's Caravan took place in July 2016. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance launched the It Takes Roots to Change the System People’s Caravan from the RNC to the DNC. Nearly 40 community leaders and allies from the US and Honduras traveled in a bus from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, stopping along the way to build with communities in Pittsburgh and Baltimore fighting for environmental and racial justice.
Caravanistas included Nay’Chelle Harris, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), St. Louis, Missouri.