Ashley Dixon

Ashley Dixon hails from a working-class background in rural Kansas. She is the Rural Georgia Campaigns Lead Organizer at Southern Crossroads, part of Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ). She organizes poor and working-class people in the rural U.S. South around material issues impacting their daily lives.

Dixon's background includes a decade of base building in the South with labor unions and workers’ centers, in addition to issue-based organizing. Her work includes unionizing a unit of 3,000 contingent faculty members at the largest community college in the nation, resulting in the biggest union win in the U.S. in 2019. After working as a correctional officer at a men’s prison in rural Tennessee, she helped end the city of Nashville's contract with a private prison company in 2020, and gave testimony of human rights abuses that sparked a statewide audit of the Tennessee prison system. Recently, she designed the grassroots base building infrastructure for the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, Georgia, and wrote about her work in a chapter of a forthcoming anthology titled No Cop City, No Cop World: Writings from the Stop Cop City Movement (Haymarket Books).

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Bard College and a Masters of Education from Vanderbilt University.