2019 Fellow
Take Action Chapel Hill
Grassroots Activist Coalition
Chapel Hill, NC
Take Action Chapel Hill (Maya Little, Gina Balamucki, and Annie Simpson) is a grassroots activist coalition based in Chapel Hill, NC. Formed in August 2018 to support anti-racist activists facing charges related to protests against white supremacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, they created the Anti-Racist Activist Fund which provides support for current and future defendants in the struggle against white supremacy in Chapel Hill and surrounding areas. Their organizing efforts led to the takedown of the contentious confederate monument Silent Sam and ongoing efforts to challenge narratives of campus history related to Civil War and racial justice.