Our team focuses on communities of color and other marginalized groups in the South with the goal of defending their rights and mobilizing efforts to win progressive policies that transform the social and political context in five Deep South states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.) Consistent with its mission, vision and strategic impact goals, the SPLC is instituting a service delivery model in each of the five states it operates focused on and informed by local concerns, context, strategy, solutions and collaboration. The ‘State Offices’ will add capacity to the Center and its efforts to collaboratively address issues unique and proximate to each state and to drive long-term, transformational/structural change.Through its state office model SPLC will elevate state and local needs, and more effectively and collaboratively employ its organization-wide capabilities and expertise in the states that it operates. Each state office will be led by a State Director who will guide their respective state-based strategy in collaboration with other Center leaders and will provide administrative leadership for the office locations.The goal is to add a State Office in all SPLC’s primary states over the next three (3) years beginning with the Mississippi State Office in Jackson in early 2021. The Media Strategist will support the State Director and all of the Center’s staff based in Jackson, Mississippi to develop communication strategies for Mississippi campaigns, programs and projects that both shape public discourse and elevate the work of the Center and its in-state networks, community partners and allies to advance solutions that dismantles systems of oppression and that fosters a culture that allows all residents of Mississippi to thrive.