Seeds of Fire Camp

The 13th Annual Seeds of Fire Camp is a weeklong camp for Southern and Appalachian youth-led and youth centered groups organizing for social change.

80th Anniversary Accomodations

The Highlander Center has limited accommodations onsite; unfortunately our dorms and other housing accommodations are reserved for staff, volunteers and other 80th Anniversary workers. Below you will find a list of hotels and other sleeping accommodations for the weekend. Please book your hotel rooms early; many hotels are filling up because of Labor Day weekend. […]

Interview with concert co-organizer and musician, Trisha Gene Brady

Trisha Gene Brady

Where did you grow up? TGB: I was born in Hamblen County Hospital. I grew up in my mother’s home, which was in Halls Cross Roads, and visited my father quite often in Jefferson City. I consider myself to have grown up in The Hills of Tennessee. How did you come into playing music? TGB: […]

Highlander Honors Mónica Hernandez

Remarks from the 2011 Circle of Change Awards The “Gardener of Change” award is presented to an educator who works to create fertile ground for social change through reflection & teaching. Mónica Hernandez is the best kind of educator – the kind where you never feel she’s teaching you – but you always leave more […]

Announcing Greensboro Justice Fund Fellowships at Highlander

The Highlander Research and Education Center is pleased to announce a new leadership program, the Greensboro Justice Fund Fellowship at Highlander. Highlander was chosen, along with the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, NC, to carry on the social and economic justice legacy of the Greensboro Justice Fund (GJF) and is honored to do so. For […]

AN UPCOMING EVENT AT HIGHLANDER CENTER

Wild & Wacky, Witty & Wonderful Workshop Work Week—Take 4! May 29—June 2, 2011 ******************************************************************************************** Third Wild and Wacky, Witty and Wonderful Workshop Work Week – otherwise known as W-7.4 Come to the mountains of east Tennessee and spend one of the best starts to your summer ever with Highlander staff and people from around […]