Shoshannah Sayers is the Deputy Director at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Graduating from UNC Chapel Hill School of Law in 2004, Shoshannah immediately went into civil rights work as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the UNC Center for Civil Rights, where she worked on public education reform and voting rights matters. She then spent a year at the Center for Community Action in Lumberton, North Carolina, doing community organizing and policy analysis for the grassroots nonprofit.