Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working-class woman, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN. She has served as president of the Black Affairs Association at East Tennessee State University and the Rho Upsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She is a long-time activist working around issues of mountaintop removal mining, and environmental racism in central and southern Appalachia, and has served on the National Council of the Student Environmental Action Coalition. She is an active participant in the Movement for Black Lives and is on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly.

Image Description: Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson looking at the camera, smiling. She has on glasses and is wearing a pink shirt with a brown jacket.]