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Meet the SCNTR Team 

Staff

Ainka Sanders Jackson

Ainka Sanders Jackson

Executive Director

Ainka Jackson is the founding Executive Director of the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation.

Carolyn Vassar Pickett

Carolyn Vassar Pickett

Alternative Break Manager

She was a 16 year old member of the Senior Class at R.B. Hudson High School in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement

Perry Blackmon

Perry Blackmon

Manger, Street Outreach Team

Perry Blackmon is the Manager of Street Outreach Services with the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation.

Tracey Howard

Tracey Howard

Lead Transformation Specialist

Tracey Howard is the Transformation Specialist at the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation.
Tracey was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.

Drew Glover

Drew Glover

Development and Communications Specialist

Bringing 10 years of experience in organizing , he is also a certified nonviolence educator.

Felicia Gill

Felicia Gill

Beloved Community Block Club Navigator

Felicia Gill is a Beloved Community Block Club Navigator. She is a native of Selma, AL, a 1984 Selma High School graduate, and a mother of one son and three grandchildren.

Mildrea' Christiana Harris (Christy)

Mildrea' Christiana Harris (Christy)

Street Outreach Team

Mildrea' C. Harris (aka Christy) is a native of Birmingham, AL but raised in Selma, AL; a 2010 graduate of Selma High School. She received a Bachelor of Science in Justice and Public Policy from Concordia University of Wisconsin in 2015.

Lydia Chatmon

Lydia Chatmon

VISTA/Sustainable Tourism Manager

“Iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”

- Proverbs 27:17

Dr. Chinwe Okeke, MD, MHA

Dr. Chinwe Okeke, MD, MHA

Director of the Violence Intervention Program

Dr. Chinwe Okeke, MD, MHA has over a decade of teaching experience from secondary and post-secondary education to undergraduate, graduate, and professional school education.

Prince Bates

Prince Bates

Street Outreach Team

Prince Earl Bates. 29-year-old musician native to Selma, AL.

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