Elizabeth Sanders

Elizabeth Sanders is the General Manager of WMMT, the community radio station of Appalshop, a 50-year-old arts and media organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky. She is an alum of the STAY (Stay Together Appalachian Youth) Project, a member of the 2014 cohort of the Young Climate Leaders Network, and took part in the It Takes Roots delegation, a delegation of more than 100 indigenous and frontline community members attending the COP21 climate talks in Paris in 2015. Elizabeth previously served as Secretary of the Appalshop Board of Directors and Chair of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a 10,000+ member statewide grassroots organization. Elizabeth was a presenter at the 2018 International Conference on Penal Abolition in London, England and part of the coordinating team for the 2019 Central Appalachian Prison Justice Movement Assembly at the Highlander Education Center in Tennessee.