Abstract
25-year-old Gillian Prater-Lee (they/them) shares their experience growing up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and attending Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. They discuss how social justice has played a key role in shaping their understanding of the city. Prater-Lee recollects their time living at the Catholic Worker House while interning at the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH). After finishing their MA program at Penn State, Prater-Lee joined Bike and Build, and eventually returned to Cleveland where they joined the Cleveland Catholic Worker and got involved in community organizing in the area of housing justice, including organizing tenants' unions and advocating for the residents of Euclid Beach Mobile Home Park, who faced displacement for a lakefront park.
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Interviewee
Prater-Lee, Gillian (interviewee)
Interviewer
White, Bali (interviewer)
Project
Near West Side Housing Activism
Date
7-13-2024
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
51 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Gillian Prater-Lee interview, 13 July 2024" (2024). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 544008.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1277
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