Erica Perry is an organizer and movement lawyer from Nashville, Tennessee, committed to fighting for power with Black people and working-class communities in the US South. Erica has worked with organizers and advocates throughout Tennessee and nationwide to create alternatives to police and jails, fight for local budgets that invest in the community, and organize to build power. Erica moved back home in 2019 and founded the Black Nashville Assembly and Southern Movement, Committed with other Nashvillians committed to participatory democracy, abolition of the prison industrial complex, and economic democracy. After graduating from East Literature Magnet High School, Erica attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she studied political science and public administration and worked in community centers. She graduated from the University of Memphis School of Law in 2016 and is licensed to practice law in Tennessee.