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Lakelyn Barnes

Lakelyn Barnes

Community organizer and nonprofit consultant at ReNforce Organization working on financial literacy, reentry support, and civic engagement in Augusta, Georgia.

Jun 8, 2026

A Moment with Erik Fleming

A Moment with Erik Fleming

Specs & Social Change Featuring David Dunaway and Lakeland Barnes

Jun 8 · 2h 40m

Erik Fleming
Erik FlemingHOST
63:35
What led you to drive change and growth as a community organizer and nonprofit consultant?
Lakeland Barnes
Lakeland BarnesGUEST
63:43
Okay, so funny story.
Lakeland Barnes
Lakeland BarnesGUEST
63:46
In high school, I witnessed somebody getting bullied at school.
Lakeland Barnes
Lakeland BarnesGUEST
63:51
So my senior year of high school, I saw somebody getting bullied, and I'm just not a person who thinks that you should harm others.
Lakeland Barnes
Lakeland BarnesGUEST
63:57
That's just not my MO.
Lakeland Barnes
Lakeland BarnesGUEST
63:59
And so I went to my principal, and I told him, "I don't like that this is happening.
Lakeland Barnes
Lakeland BarnesGUEST
64:03
I don't want this to happen.

10 MINS LATER

Erik Fleming
Erik FlemingHOST
74:21
The first one I want you to talk about is She Will.

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