Jeremiah Smith

Jeremiah (he/him/any) is the Director of Organizing at the Freedom Project Network and a volunteer organizer and Board member of the Memphis Tenants Union. As an educator, youth organizer, and renter in the Mississippi Delta, Jeremiah became intensely familiar with the violence of the housing system under capitalism, and in 2020, was part of a team of organizers who founded the Memphis Tenants Union, working to build supermajority tenants unions in the city. For the past three years, Jeremiah has also served as a representative for the Tenant Power Committee of the Right to the City Alliance. Jeremiah also works with several broad front efforts to confront to rise of authoritarianism in the US