Serena Sebring

Serena Sebring, Executive Director, is a queer Black feminist, mother, organizer, and educator. Sebring supports the power building strategies of Blueprint NC’s partner organizations to demand a more inclusive democracy for North Carolinians. She brings leadership and vision to the coalition, by strengthening relationships and strategic alignment of partners, and coordinating resources and staff capacity in their service. Sebring joined the  Blueprint NC team in 2020, after more than 10 years of experience in building power, community organizing, policy campaigns, and base-building. Previously, she served as Regional Organizing Lead for Southerners on New Ground (SONG). Serena received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005, her M.A. in Sociology from Duke University in 2008, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University, in 2012. Since 2005, she has woven and nurtured relationships across the state with organizers, artists, policy-makers, workers, parents, and caregivers on front porches, in church basements and city council rooms, at the statehouse and in the streets.