Emery Wright currently sits on the Executive Leadership Team at Project South in Atlanta.
From the Project South website:
An Atlanta native, Emery is a community organizer with over 15 years of experience including: youth development, community and tenant organizing, leadership development, and nonprofit organizational development. Emery is an educator with experience facilitating Black studies courses, U.S. history, African studies, and leadership development in a wide range of settings including prisons, housing struggles, college campuses and youth organizing spaces.
In 1999, He founded and directed The Nia Project for five years, a Black youth development and community building organization based in Boston, Massachusetts with projects in South Carolina and Atlanta. In 2002, he received the Arthur Ashe Youth Leadership Award from the Skinner Leadership Institute and the Drylongslo Award for Combating Racism from the Boston Center for Community Change. An accomplished writer and speaker on social movement development and grassroots leadership, Emery has worked closely with community organizers in East Africa and across the Southeast. He served on the Project Team at Building Movement Project, Inc. based in New York from 2006-2009 and currently serves on The Ordinary Peoples Society National Board, based in Dothan, Alabama.
At Project South, Emery is responsible for Organizational Program & Leadership Development and directs the youth development work for community organizing including the Youth Community Action Project Youth Speak Truth radio program and the Septima Clark Community Power Institute.
See also: Emery’s speech at the 2008 Atlanta Global Day of Action press conference
Photo credit: Project South
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