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Headshot image of Harold Folley
2023-2024 Co-Chair
Department
President's Council on UVA-Community Partnerships
Bio

Harold joined the President's Council on UVA-Community Partnerships in 2019, the year the Council was established.

Harold also works at Legal Aid Justice Center as an organizer in January 2018. He is the Civil Rights & Racial Justice organizer with an emphasis on Police Accountability. He has been working with The People’s Coalition to make law enforcement more accountable and transparent. Harold has been organizing for 15 years in Virginia and the Charlottesville area. He has worked on federal issues such as Social Security and tax reform and state issues such as restoration of civil rights and health care and important local issues such as Ban the Box and living wages. In all of these efforts, Harold works to get the people to become more aware of what’s going on in the world and more importantly with their surroundings. Harold believes that everyone is a leader; they just have to believe in themselves so that they can lead.