Oral History of Kayla Gilchrist, interviewed by Hannah Cowan Jones, 15 April 2021

Oral History of Kayla Gilchrist, interviewed by Hannah Cowan Jones, 15 April 2021

Kayla Gilchrist was born in 1988 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Minnesota. After graduating from high school, she moved to Spain to attend the Universidad de San Luis to study Spanish and international relations. During her junior year, she lived in Cairo, Egypt. After graduation, she remained in Spain for another year and a half and then returned to the United States to attend graduate school at The Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. She graduated with an MA in International Policy Studies with a focus on conflict resolution and community development and an MA in Translation-Interpretation. Right after, she moved to Charleston, SC, to join CAJM (Charleston Area Justice Ministry) as an associate organizer. Gilchrist reflects on the life events that shaped her interest in organizing people and communities for social justice, including her experiences with school disparities as a child, living overseas and describes her work with CAJM and MORE Justice (Midland's Organized Response for Equity and Justice). In 2020, she moved to Washington DC and joined NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness).

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Charleston (S. C.)

65 minutes

Hannah Cowan Jones

Kayla Gilchrist

Charleston, South Carolina and Washington, DC via Zoom