Perry graduated from Agnes Scott College with a degree in Business Management and a minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, knowing that environmental work was where she wanted to go with her career. In college she worked with several nonprofit organizations including Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, Roots Down, and with her school’s Center for Sustainability.
Perry is passionate about working to help people and our natural environment against environmental injustice and the harmful effects of climate change. She believes that these are some of the most important issues of our time and is very excited to be coordinating the Green New Deal for Birmingham Campaign.
Perry loves taking care of her many indoor house plants, spending time outside reading, and hanging out with friends or family.
Max Blau covers health care, public health and the environment for ProPublica’s South unit. Email: [email protected]
Blake Ells is the author of 'The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME' and 'Magic City Rock.' He's been published in Rolling Stone, No Depression, Taste of Country, The Boot and AL.com among others. He grew up in a one and a half stop light town 27 miles east of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.Blake continues to serve The Literacy Council of Central Alabama, where he has previously served as chair. He is a proud alumnus of Auburn University and currently a Staff Writer for Outsider.
Spencer Bowley is a 2022 graduate from the University of Alabama School of Law, waiting semi-patiently on his bar exam results so that he can start work as a civil rights lawyer in Birmingham with The Rice Firm, LLC. In between graduating from Princeton University in 2011 with a degree in politics and beginning law school in the fall of 2019, Spencer worked in a variety of public-facing positions before and after moving to Alabama, from barista and ice cream scooper to Planned Parenthood organizer and Affordable Care Act navigator. While not fighting the proverbial good fight legally, Spencer spends his free time exploring Birmingham, binge-watching Netflix, building and playing as many Magic: the Gathering decks as possible, and lamenting the recent performance of his Cincinnati Reds.
