Voting Rights Champion To Keynote Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet

CHAPEL HILL, NC – At a time when voting rights are under relentless attack, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP is proud to have one of the foremost voting rights advocates as the keynote speaker at its Oct. 17 Freedom Fund Banquet.

Nsé Ufot is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Georgia Project (NGP), which she leads with a data-informed approach and a commitment to developing tools that use technology with the goal of making it easier for every voter to engage in every election.

Nsé and her team are also developing Georgia’s home-grown talent by training and organizing local activists across the state. She has dedicated her life and career to working on civil, human, and workers’ rights issues and leads two organizations whose complementary aim is to strengthen Georgia’s democracy. Under her leadership, NGP has registered over 500,000 eligible Georgians to vote and has no plans of slowing down.

The Freedom Fund Banquet is the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP’s primary fundraiser, supporting programming, activism, and outreach, as well as branch scholarships, our social-justice internship program, BIPOC economic development efforts, and voter education and advocacy.

This year’s banquet will be a hybrid, COVID-safe event, which can be enjoyed virtually or at The Drive-In Theater at Callaway Village in Chapel Hill. Tickets can be purchased here, and sponsorship packages are also available.

The evening’s festivities will be hosted by Creighton P. Blackwell, who has been a community advocate for over 25 years on a local as well as national level. He currently serves as the Chief Culture & Impact Officer at Coastal Credit Union.

In addition to Ufot speaking to the banquet’s theme of “All Together for Justice,” the event will also feature recognition of the recipients of its annual scholarships and awards honors to outstanding members of the branch and the Chapel Hill and Carrboro communities.