Cassandra Alexander-Green

Biography

Early Life

Cassandra Alexander-Green was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a child survivor of sexual abuse, rape, and domestic violence. She started writing poetry as a young girl, and later, she wrote plays to escape and express her pain. Cassandra was homeless with her children for ten months when her children were young. She had been in an abusive marriage and was almost killed. She moved to Atlanta in 1990.

Religious Activism

Pastor Cassandra Alexander-Green was ordained by the Seed of Faith Evangelistic Church, Charleston, SC. She trained with the church Bishop for 3-4 years before her ordination. Cassandra describes how her faith inspires her advocacy: “I’ve always had a heart for people. My empathy for people was always high, especially after I became a born again Christian. Once I became a Christian, I wanted to help people to not be in the kind of pain that I grew up with. My faith catapulted me into my activism and advocacy work, because the idea of people being treated unjustly and unequally made me want to work to make life better for others.”

Mental Health and Human Rights Advocacy

Alexander-Green founded W.O.W.W. Ministries in 1993. Her nonprofit provides education and assistance to those who need resources, advocacy help, and victim advocacy. She also has attended legislative sessions, City Council Meetings and other events as a civil and human rights activist. She has provided ministries to homeless people in the Atlanta area for many years. She has provided prison ministries and teaching in state, local, and federal prisons for over 35 years.

Through her nonprofit organizations, she sponsors events and awareness months, such as Mental Health Awareness, Domestic Violence Awareness, Anti-Bullying, Sexual Abuse Awareness. She is on the Board for the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) of DeKalb County.

Alexander-Green’s nephew, Jamal Sutherland was murdered in a South Carolina jail by law enforcement staff in 2021. Alexander-Green has advocated for changes in prisons and law enforcement brutality. She has traveled with Mothers Against Police Brutality to support other family members of police, law enforcement, or prison brutality.

Advocacy and Education Through the Arts

Alexander-Green collaborates with other organizations to sponsor events and create Public Service Announcements.

For more than 10 years, she has directed the “Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching Reenactment” in Monroe, Georgia by the SCLC, (Southern Christian Leadership Council,) and GABEO, (Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials.) It is the only lynching reenactment of its kind in the United States. Her interview and scenes from the lynching reenactment were featured in Jackie Olive’s award-winning film, Always in Season, which won the Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. The reenactment has been featured in NBC, DW German television, The Guardian, NPR, BBC, Radio Lab, Boston Globe, PBS, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other media outlets.

Alexander-Green is Vice President of Original Content at BOP (Black On Purpose) TV network, which is the largest Black-owned streaming network in the world. Michael Campbell is its CEO and founder.

She wrote and directed the play, “But I Love Him” about domestic violence. She also wrote the play, “A Song for Donnie Hathaway” for Black Poet Ventures. She writes plays and skits for several nonprofit organizations on teen dating violence, sexual abuse, bullying, and human trafficking. Through her nonprofits she also conducts workshops, retreats, and seminars on many of these topics including domestic violence, relationships, communication, and stopping gun violence.

Awards

Alexander-Green received a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021, and a Raymond Green International Outreach Award in 2021 for her work with missing and exploited people. She received the NAACP Award in 2009. She received the Woman of Hope Award in 2016 as well as the 2016 Women of Influence Award.