Speaker
Ann’s Keynote Topics Include:
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Making the Invisible Visible
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Ethnic Cleansing in Georgia
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Economic downturn and Decline of Jobs Leading to the Outmigration
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Collaboration Between Races Can Break Down Barriers
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Freedom Has Never Been Free
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The Traditional Black Church and Its Clergy
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The Segregation of Schools
Presentations can be customized to fit your audience needs.
Partial Client List
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University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC
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Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC
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Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA
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Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC
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FolkMoot, Waynesville, NC
- NC Museum of History, Raleigh, NC
- and many Churches
Keynote Speeches
Powerful and Impactful
Ann’s presentations have enlightened, informed, and educated the people throughout Western North Carolina and other cities in Tennessee and Georgia in person and by Zoom. Through her presentations, Woodford is empowering people to change their lives. She provides them with useful information and resources while helping them understand the power of working together as they recognize the efforts of those who have laid strong past foundations for more peaceful communities.
Ann’s unique combination of her delivery style and inspirational content leaves a lasting impact on participants that ignites their imaginations. She wants her presentations to be catalysts for introducing means of changing individual misconceptions and initiating programs and practices that help bring about more equal racial justice through truth and understanding. Her message will inspire members of your audience to initiate conversations around racial awareness.
In her signature presentation, Making the Invisible Visible: African American History and Heritage in Far Western North Carolina, Woodford speaks on issues, institutions, and practices that have impacted African Americans from the 1950s and 1960s to the present day. People in other small and rural communities across the nation can benefit from the stories and experiences revealed in her presentations.
What Others Are Saying
Author and journalist who wrote about Woodford in his book, Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia. His newest publication is Grace and Disgrace: Living with Faith and the Leader of the Dixie Mafia.
Ann Miller Woodford’s work is exceptional. Every piece I’ve seen shows so much character, so much love, so much of Ann Woodford herself. If I had her talent, I might head off to LA or New York and make it big, but Ann is attached to the mountains of North Carolina like ivy to a red oak.
“Woodford and her colleagues have much enriched our understanding of what our Appalachian heritage means, and how much richer and more varied it comes to be when viewed in such multi-colored hues.”
“I had the honor to meet Ms. Ann Miller Woodford and listen to her impassioned and uplifting talk about the African American experience in Western NC. There was a moment during her talk that I began to pray a prayer of gratitude. Something has shifted inside me tonight. What will come from it I do not know.”
“Ann gives the gift of her knowledge and presence in a gentle but powerful way. The gift of her insights have the potential to help us all address our personal privilege in a way that empowers us to lift others up. When Ann is presenting or speaking with me, I feel like we friends or family. Ann holds the space for a universal family.”