Staff
Elizabeth Woodson (she/her)
Executive Director
Elizabeth is a 12th generation European American settler descended from people of Celtic and Germanic cultures. For over a decade, Elizabeth has worked towards racial equity through philanthropy at the Emerson Collective, direct services at Columbus House and the Bridgeport Public Defenders, and public education at the Equal Justice Initiative where she contributed to the research, development and opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Informed by growing up in segregated Fairfield County, Connecticut and fighting sexual violence as student body president at Stanford University, Elizabeth is an experienced Theater of the Oppressed facilitator, community organizer, and researcher. Elizabeth lives on the ancestral homelands of the Maskoke people, colonially known as Montgomery, Alabama.
Heron Davis-Hale (they/them)
Director of Program & Operations
Heron is a descendant of long Western European occupation of the southeastern United States, a landscape intimately tied to its colonial history. Their PhD in linguistic anthropology focused on the mutual influence of narrative and society in shaping the grammatical composition of mythohistorical texts. They live on ancestral lands of the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Shawnee, and Yuchi peoples in what is now called Huntsville, Alabama.