Meet the Guilford County NAACP Moral Freedom Summer Organizer!

Holden Cession is a native North Carolinian from Rural Hall, a small town outside of Winston-Salem. After graduating high school they attended The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s and Gender Studies in the spring of 2014. They became involved in community organizing and social justice work while they were a student through their involvement in the Mentoring Ourselves Raising Each Other Collective (M.O.R.E.) and the Queer People of Color Collective (QPOCC). In Holden’s senior year they interned at Guilford College with the Bayard Rustin Center for LGBTQA Activism, Education, and Reconciliation. During their time at the Bayard Rustin Center they co-created the North Carolina LGBTQ College Consortium and co-organized the 3rd Annual Bayard Rustin Symposium at Guilford College. They are currently a NC NAACP Moral Freedom Summer Organizer for Guilford County. Holden enjoys engaging in conversations around queer and transgender identities in communities of color and communities of faith. Their aim is to spread awareness about the intersectionality of identities in order to build a stronger fusion movement.