Change Agents For A Brighter Mississippi Delta
Supporting community education, engagement and innovation.
Our mission is to be a change agent in the transformation of poor and low income communities from perceived places of poverty, low skills, and despair to places of prosperity, abundant skills, and hope.
Our purpose is to inspire people in low income communities to create good lives and vibrant healthy communities. Our vision is that all residents in places where we work are happy, whole, and healthy. We rely on community participation and donations.
Listen up.
In this episode of “Reimagine Rural,” Gloria Dickerson, Founder and CEO of We2gether Creating Change is interviewed by journalist Tony Pipa. Pipa visits Drew and Moorhead, two towns in Sunflower County, Mississippi, once home to cotton plantations, where the country’s history of slavery and the civil rights movement set the context for these rural towns and their path to renewal today. Local leaders and homecomers describe their efforts to build communities where people want to live—and the role of beauty and leisure in achieving their visions.
Other Participants in this episode:
George Holland, Mayor, Moorhead Mississippi
Dee Jones, Vice President, Community & Economic Development, Hope Enterprise Corporation
Ed Sivak, Executive Vice President, Policy and Communications, Hope Credit Union
Melanie Townsend-Blackmon, Mayor, Drew, Mississippi
Culture of Health Prize Winner
We2gether Creating Change is a 2020-2021 RWJF Culture of Health Prize winner, honored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for working at the forefront of advancing health, opportunity, and equity for all.
“Everybody has a purpose in life, and God has built inside the strength you need to carry out your purpose.”
— Mae Bertha Carter
We2gether Creating Change
(601) 832-3253
167 North Main Street
Drew, MS 38737