Job Opening: Highlander Seeks Special Assistant to the Director
Highlander Center is currently seeking a Special Assistant to the Director.
Seeds of Fire Camp 2012!
July 15-22nd Applications due June 5th! The 13th Annual Seeds of Fire Camp is a week-long camp for Southern and Appalachian youth-led and youth centered groups organizing for social change. The camp is focused on changing the education and juvenile justice systems in our communities, states and across the country while examining the world we […]
About Us
HIGHLANDER’S MISSION AND WORK Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the U.S. South. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help to create spaces — at Highlander and in local communities — where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is […]
Highlander Welcomes New Staff Members
The Highlander Center is pleased to welcome four new talented, fun and hard working staff.
Highlander Center Receives the 2012 Folk Alliance Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Award
Along with legendary singers, Harry Belafonte and the late Robert Johnson, the Highlander Research and Education Center was recently honored as a recipient of the International Folk Alliance Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Award. Pam McMichael, Highlander Director, attended the 24th Annual International Folk Alliance Conference in February in Memphis to accept the prestigious award on […]
4th Annual Wild & Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Workshop Work Week
Come to the mountains of East Tennessee and start your summer off right with Highlander staff and people from all over the country at W-7.4, our 4th Wild and Wonderful, Witty and Wacky Workshop Work week, May 31-June.
4th Annual Wild & Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Workshop Work Week
Come to the mountains of East Tennessee and start your summer off right with Highlander staff and people from all over the country at W-7.4, our 4th Wild and Wonderful, Witty and Wacky Workshop Work week, May 31-June.
Justice for Trayvon Martin, United Against Racism Peaceful Demonstration
Peaceful Demonstration April 4th 5-7pm On Gay Street in Krutch Park
Highlander phone system currently down
Our phone system is currently down. We are working to rectify the situation and hope to have it resolved soon. In case of an emergency, you can email us at hrec at test.highlandercenter.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.
Zilphia III Cultural Organizing Institute
The Zilphia Johnson Horton Cultural Organizing Project is currently in its third wave. Whereas Zilphia Horton Projects I and II focused on Highlander in community with cultural workers as teachers, Zilphia III focuses on cultural workers coming to Highlander to better understand organizing.