Heather Booth

Heather Booth is an organizer for progressive causes, helping people to articulate the injustices that they experience and take collective action to redress them. She is also a civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist. Calling her one of the nation’s most influential organizers for progressive causes, a profile published in 2017 by Pulitzer-winning journalist David Wood says: Inside almost every liberal drive over the past five decades ― for fair pay, equal justice, abortion rights, workers’ rights, voter rights, civil rights, immigration rights, child care ― you will find Booth. But you may have to look hard. Because she’s not always at the head of the protest march. More often, she’s at a let’s-get-organized meeting in a suburban church basement or a late-night strategy session in a crumbling neighborhood’s community center. She’s helping people already roused to action figure out practical ways to move their cause forward. And always she’s advancing the credo she learned as a child: that you must not only treat people with dignity and respect, but you must shoulder your own responsibility to help build a society that reflects those values.

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