Marilyn Baird

marilynb@belovedcommunitycenter.org

Marilyn is a longtime labor organizer who directs the economic justice programs of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro. Her duties include coordinating the Worker’s Rights Center and the Southern Faith and Labor Community Alliance.

A native of Greensboro who lived many years in Washington, D.C., Marilyn spent 15 years as southeast director of the Communications Workers of America. After retiring from that position, she was the organizing director of Grassroots Leadership’s privatization of prisons project.

Passionate about the need for workers to use democracy to take control of their own lives and working conditions, she is co-chair of Greensboro’s Minimum Wage Campaign, which is using the electoral process to increase the city’s minimum wage.

She is an active member of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where she serves as the church hostess and as the staff person for the nonprofit New Hope Community Development Group. A mother of four and grandmother of seven, she lives in Greensboro with her husband Lawrence Baird.

by Marilyn Baird and Rev. Nelson Johnson