Beth Howard is the author of the forthcoming memoir from Haymarket Books, Rednecks for Black Lives, and the Appalachia Peoples' Union Director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). She lives in Lexington, KY, but grew up in a rural, white, working class community in Eastern Kentucky. She has organized in the American South for seventeen years, primarily in her beloved state of Kentucky. Beth has been a lead organizer on winning campaigns to raise the minimum wage and restore voting rights. She's also worked on winning electoral campaigns engaging white, working class Southerners, including defeating an abortion ban ballot initiative in the 2022 Kentucky midterms, re-electing Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear in 2023, and running a rural field office in the 2020 Georgia runoff election. Beth is the creator of the viral narrative campaign Rednecks for Black Lives and she's been featured on the NBC News National Day of Racial Healing special, Matter of Fact’s Listening Tour with Soledad O’Brian, NPR’s Here and Now, Now This News, in the book Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections, and the New York Times, including publishing an Op-Ed in The Boston Globe. You can find her on Substack at Working Class Love Notes.