Mandy carter biography

American activist

Mandy Carter is an American blacklesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activist.

Career

Carter is a former executive director and one of the six co-founders of the North Carolina–based Southerners On New Ground (SONG).^[2][3][4] Founded at the 1993 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's (NGLTF) Creating Change Conference in Durham, North Carolina, SONG integrates work against homophobia into freedom struggles in the South.^[1]

Carter served as campaign manager for North Carolina's Senate Vote '90 and Mobilization '96 political action committees.^[3][4] She served again as campaign manager for Florida Vote/Equal Voice based in Miami – a 2000 non-partisan, statewide voter empowerment campaign, which was initiated by the African-American Ministers Leadership Council of the People, People for the American Way Foundation, and the Florida NAACP – which resulted in one of F