Willie "J.R." Fleming

Willie “J.R.” Fleming is an organizer, documentarian, Web site designer and researcher with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing in Chicago. He also led the March for the Right to Return with public housing residents and leaders in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina one-year memorial. He filmed and edited a “gospelmentary” titled Voice of the Voiceless along with several other short videos on housing that can be found at housingisahumanright.com. Before joining the Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Fleming was the director of a gang intervention music program for young men in Cabrini Green and is currently the chairman for the Hip Hop Congress Community Chapter in Chicago, which deals with issues of social and economic injustice using music as a platform to unite the people.