Leah Clyburn has been a long standing community advocate and organizer in the St. Louis Region for more than 10 years. Her love for Missouri is rooted in the longstanding relationships built throughout her childhood growing up as one of the few families of color in South County in the late 80’s to her diversified community in South City as a young adult.
Leah also has a background in the healthcare system, which catapulted her into community organizing to challenge the unjust treatment for women and their families, the poor, and women of color. Her career in community organizing has included reproductive justice through a faith-based lens, the Break the Pipeline initiative, the environmental justice & climate change movement, and statewide policy initiatives . She believes that a call-out is an invitation for authenticity and transformational relationships in order to obtain Justice for all.
Currently, Leah serves on several boards and strategy tables in supporting community development, childhood education and involvement in addressing environmental justice and climate change, and supporting faith institutions as they engage their community and congregations in what it means to be “good stewards of the Land, Water, and Air.” She is also involved in labor development and supports to best amplify women of color in becoming the leaders that they wish to see in the world.
Some of the trainings that Leah has graduated from but continue to study: Gamailie Leadership training; People’s Institute: Dismantling White Supremacy; Camp Wellstone; Jobs with Justice MO; Reproductive Justice: Leadership Training with SisterSong; Deep Canvassing: Demos; Leadership training: Urban Bush Women; Management and Equity: Management Center Women’s Leadership Fellow: VoteRunLead; andNew Leadership Council Fellow program.