Zillah Wesley: "You Only Get What You Organize to Take"

This summer the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival held the largest gathering of poor and low wealth people in the nation’s history at the Mass Poor People and Low Wage Worker’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. While gearing up for this major event we got a chance to talk to Zillah Wesley about organizing in DC.

Zillah F. Wesley, II is a native Washingtonian. She loves working in the DC community and working towards the beloved community. Zillah had earned her bachelor’s in political science from the University of the District of Columbia. At the time of this interview she was working Kairos Center as a policy organizer. She’s worked with the DC Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and other collectives in the DC Community.  She was raised in Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC. Growing up in the UCC helped her become the person she is today and gave her the fire for social justice.  She loves DC and would like to see all people enjoy it. Zillah is about the liberation of people by transformative and healing organizing.