2021 Presenter Bios

Lisa Abbott is an organizing Co-Director with KFTC. She coordinates KFTC’s work on Just Transition, sustainable energy, and climate change.

Joyce Adkins has been a member of KFTC since her retirement from public health in 2017. She has served on the Warren County Democracy Team as well as the state Economic Justice Committee for several years, and served as a Voter Empowerment organizer in 2018. She has participated in phone banking, text banking, and in person canvassing and is so happy the pandemic is easing up enough to allow some in person contacts again! Joyce is Tri-Chair of the Kentucky Poor People's Campaign. She is the proud mama of two progressive sons and five awesome grandchildren, as well as mama to Paco Bad Kitty and Jack the Dog.

Kathy Curtis has been an active member of the Big Sandy Chapter since 2006.  She’s served on the Economic Justice Committee, and participated in the KFTC Organizing Academy and the Just Transition Cohort. Last year Kathy served as Steering Committee Alternate, has participated in OCI, and continues to serve on KFTC’s Executive Leadership Transition Team. Kathy also has extensive experience in other community efforts. She was actively involved in Grow Appalachia, Community Farm Alliance, co-founded Appalachian Roots, and has hosted a radio show on WMMT telling the story of food and farming in the mountains. And, Kathy has recently been elected prioress of an ecumenical monastic community of women in the Benedictine tradition, the first non-Catholic in that community to hold that position.

Annette Hines