Mantryll Williams, a youth policy consultant and movement-building fellow with Children’s Defense Fund, is an organizer from Fayetteville, N.C. He is an apprentice with the Center for Third World Organizing and a Social Work student at NC A&T State University. Mantryll focuses on dismantling oppressive structures and promoting transformative justice through mutual aid, truth, and reconciliation. His work spans prison abolition, youth mental well-being, housing insecurity, and education access. Mantryll is committed to improving conditions for the marginalized and is active with Faith Community Church in Greensboro, N.C. Guided by the verse, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,” he strives to heal and empower his community.