While she fights relentlessly for her ideals in the contentious, partisan politics of Washington, D.C., back home in Oakland, California, Lee provides leadership to a new generation of nonviolent community leaders. She co-founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center and every year invites young people to join her on the annual Civil Rights pilgrimage from the site of MLK’ s assassination to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. With American society veering toward increasingly brazen hate speech, ethnic division and racially charged rhetoric and violence, Lee ’s grassroots education and organizing takes on new urgency.