Meet the team

  • Stephanie Cho (she/her) is the Director of the Democracy Lab South. She brings over 20 years of experience in labor and community organizing, strategic planning, and fundraising at both local and national levels.

    Originally born in South Korea, Stephanie grew up in Oregon. After university, she began her career in organizing and movement work. She has been a community organizer, program director for LGBTQ youth programming, director of training for a national fellowship program, labor organizer, and organizational consultant. Before joining Advancing Justice, Stephanie was the Los Angeles Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC-LA), where she worked to raise industry standards and wages for LA’s restaurant workers.

    She served as the Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta. She expanded the organization from a small staff of 5 to 25, adding new departments such as multi-language legal representation, deportation defense, and impact litigation to meet community needs. During her tenure, she:

    • Created a space to dream and reimagine a just world, nurturing new cadres of immigrant leaders, activists, and organizers.

    • Led efforts to repeatedly contact every AAPI voter in Georgia, fought against voter suppression in courtrooms and at the polls, and successfully ended 287(g) agreements in Cobb and Gwinnett Counties.

    • Fought deportations and opposed anti-immigrant legislation in Georgia.

    • Organized a rapid response team after the Atlanta spa shootings to support victims and their families, work with social service agencies for emergency needs, and distribute emergency funds for victims and survivors.

    Stephanie is passionate about fostering new leadership, developing sustainable ways of working toward justice for all, and drawing inspiration from transnational solidarity and movement-building efforts.

    Awards

    • Atlanta Pride Marshall, 2019

    • Haas, Jr. Award for Outstanding LGBTQ Leadership for Immigrant Rights

    • 25 Most Influential Asians – GA Asian Times (2017, 2021)

    • 100 Most Influential People in Georgia – GA Trends Magazine

    • Atlanta Magazine’s 500 Most Influential (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

    • Raksha Change Maker Award, 2022

    • World Korean Day Overseas Korean Government Award, 2022

  • LP Green (they/them), MPA, is the Environmental Justice Project Director at the Democracy Lab South. In this capacity, they are responsible for the development, execution, and dissemination of the BIPOC Community Environmental Justice Opinion Survey. LP works to engage community members around the state towards implementing inclusive and effective environmental justice policies.

    Prior to joining Demo Lab, LP served as the Manager of Strategic Partnerships at Families USA. In this role, they supported projects and managed teams that advanced Families USA’s work within the four core focus areas of healthcare value, equity, consumer experience, and coverage. Previously, as the Outreach and Education Manager at Georgians for a Healthy Future, they engaged consumers and communities in conversations about how health policy impacted their lives and provided tools and resources to help individuals engage in the health policy-making process. LP has extensive experience in advocacy, program management, and person-centered approaches to community building. Before joining the Demo Lab team, LP led capacity building efforts for an Atlanta-based research study on transgender health and resilience. In addition to this, they coordinated food and fund campaigns at the Georgia Food Bank Association.

  • E Lim (they/them) is the Director of Southern Regional Strategy at the Democracy Lab South.

    Born and raised in Atlanta, E began organizing in Atlanta’s AAPI communities in 2015 during an internship with Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta. They continued organizing around housing and racial justice on campus before graduating from New York University with a B.A. in Systems of Power and Inequality in the United States. Afterward, they worked on electoral and issue campaigns in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, and Muncie before returning to Georgia in 2017 to build power with the immigrant communities that raised them.

    E led the organizing and civic engagement strategy at Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta for four years, during which they co-founded the Asian American Advocacy Fund in 2018, ATL Q+A in 2019, and The Devi Co-op in 2020.

    In 2021, E stepped down as the Civic Engagement & Organizing Director at Advancing Justice–Atlanta to join the Demo Lab South Project. In their current role, they work to grow Southern organizing infrastructure by partnering with community organizations and leaders throughout the Southern region. Outside of their day job, they focus on cultural, transformative, and healing justice organizing in QTBIPOC communities in and around Atlanta.

  • Ebonee Brown (she/they) is the Administrative Assistant at the Democracy Lab South.

    Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Ebonee graduated from Spelman College with a BA in Literature in 2021. While at Spelman, they were awarded the United Negro College Fund Mellon-Mays Minority Undergraduate Fellowship for their academic research, along with numerous merit-based scholarships and awards, including the Samuel H. Johnson Scholarship and the Lettie Pace Grant.

    In the spring of 2023, Ebonee earned a Master of Arts in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida, where they received the Charles T. Woods Grant, supporting student research benefiting LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as the Outstanding Graduate Student Award. During their time at the University of Florida, Ebonee focused on studying Atlanta’s trap music genre and the intersections of regional Blackness, gender, and performance in popular culture.

    Ebonee is passionate about serving their community through social action and political activism. description