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Interviewer
Rafael Delgadillo
Contributor
Max Krochmal
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
1-13-2026
Narrator Birth Year
1995
Description
Britain Forsyth is the policy and research coordinator at Step Up. She was also the C4 board chair for Forum for Equality, a statewide LGBT rights organization, and a member of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee. Born in 1995 in Lafayette, Louisiana, to educator parents, she grew up in what she described as a liberal but deeply segregated environment. Her personal journey included moving to New Orleans as a teenager, pursuing a bachelor's degree in counseling, and later earning a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of New Orleans after leaving a counseling master's program to pursue political activism. Her expertise was in community organizing, legislative strategy, and economic and social justice advocacy.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
2010s to present
Duration
56:05:00
File Size
2.1
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Forsyth, Britain, "Oral History Interview with Britain Forsyth (Part 1)" (2026). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 34.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/34
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