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Allyn Maxfield-Steele has been Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center since 2017. Raised in Texas, Germany, and North Carolina, Maxfield-Steele was born into a family of educators, farmers, secretaries, salesmen, veterans, hotel managers, social workers, and small-town Protestant church folk of the southern Piedmont and South Atlantic coast. His movement work has focused on connecting people and grassroots communities to one another through high school and college education, faith and spiritual leadership, capacity- building, and organizing on a range of front lines
throughout the US South, Appalachia, and globally. Maxfield-Steele is committed to figuring out how people and organizations learn and transform together, and how rural and small-town people can work together to build powerful movements. Maxfield-Steele is ordained clergy in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and lives in
the mountains of Western North Carolina with his spouse, Erin, and their child, Ursa.
Marcus Winn is the Kansas Organizer for MORE2. Winn earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Olivet Nazarene University and a master’s degree in Theology from Catholic Theological Union, then worked in nonprofit direct service and higher education before organizing. Winn began organizing with neighbors while living in Chicago, working on a variety of issues such as affordable housing, immigration, and education. He co-founded an independent precinct organization in 2015 that continues to successfully pursue more a
democratic processes for local decision making and amplify the voices of local leaders. Winn moved to Kansas City in 2017 and joined MORE2 in early 2018, with a focus on voter engagement in Kansas.
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