Beth Howard at SFSU

Beth Howard is author of the memoir, Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner's Daughter from Haymarket Books and the Cultural Strategist for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the largest national organization bringing white people into the fight for racial and economic justice.

She grew up in a rural working-class community in Eastern Kentucky and has organized in the American South for two decades, primarily in her beloved home state of Kentucky.