The Wilma Dykeman Legacy was founded as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in 2012 to honor Wilma Dykeman’s extraordinary life, and to sustain her core values of environmental integrity, social justice, and the power of the written and spoken word.

Wilma Dykeman was a feminist, an early civil rights advocate in the South, and an Appalachian scholar and activist who lifted up mountain people. The Wilma Dykeman Legacy works to dismantle racial and class inequities, which are strangling our country.

Aisha Adams, host of The Asheville View, speaks with Jim Stokely, president of the Wilma Dykeman Legacy, and Jonathan McCoy, Wilma Dykeman Legacy board member and director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Mars Hill University, about the organization’s namesake, their mission, values, and programs that they provide for the community.

For more information on the Wilma Dykeman Legacy, visit WilmaDykemanLegacy.org.

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