Katherine Blay-Tandoh and Fleur Sereko

Katherine Blay-Tandoh and Fleur Sereko are recent graduates of Pittsfield High School and co-founders of the NAACP’s growing Berkshire Youth Chapter. Katherine and Fleur have started conversations in the community about voting, police brutality, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. They created youth-focused spaces and strive to lift up the voices of marginalized and oppressed individuals. Shirley Edgerton, founder of Women of Color Giving Circle, compares them to U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying, “These gifted young women are brilliant, strategic and insightful. The next wave of historic change is on the horizon and these two will help lead the way.”