meet the team

Stephanie cho | director

Stephanie Cho (SHE/HER) is the Director of the Democracy Lab South. She brings over 20 years of experience in labor and community organizing, strategy planning, and fundraising at the local and national level.

Originally born in South Korea, Stephanie grew up in Oregon. After University, she started her career in organizing and movement work…

LP green | Environmental justice project director

LP Green (THEY/THEM), MPA, is the Environmental Justice Project Director at the Democracy Lab South. In this capacity, they are responsible for 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….

e lim | director of southern regional strategy

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 to organize 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…

EBONEE BROWN | ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Ebonee Brown (She/They) is the Administrative Assistant at the Democracy Lab South. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Ebonee graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, with a BA in Literature in 2021. While at Spelman College, Ebonee was awarded the United Negro College Fund Mellon-Mays Minority Undergraduate Fellowship for their academic research as well as numerous merit-based scholarships and awards such as the Samuel H. Johnson Scholarship and the Lettie Pace grant. In the Spring of 2023, they graduated with a Master of Arts in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida…