The Guardians, created by Baltimore artist Whitney Frazier and photographer Kirby Griffin, is a photo, documentary, and storytelling project that includes photo portraits, large-scale banners and digital archives that celebrate unrecognized Black female leaders across Baltimore City neighborhoods. This project provides a platform for women who spend their lives fighting for a better, more equitable Baltimore.
Audrey Carter (00:00): My name is Audrey Carter. And, I’m primarily in the Oliver community. Kind of lived there pretty much all my life. I am 58 years old, and I just do a lot of, I guess, different things in the community. I work in the community as a head start teacher. I worship in the community. Definitely it it's signed Baptist church. I do a lot of community work in the community definitely with young people. That's my ministry. So I've, I've just been doing various, multiple things in the community. Right now, I live just like a couple of blocks outside of the Elva community, but, still, I still do so much in the community because I've been doing it for so many years. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02): And, when you say that you work with young people, you work with them as an educator. And what else, what does that work look like?
Audrey Carter (01:12): Yeah, I work with people on various levels as a head start teacher. Uh, so I work with children in the school system. I've also substituted in, in the school system from middle school on down. No, yeah, middle school and down the high school. Didn't get to that, but middle school on down. I've I work in the I'm a part of the church, and I'm the coordinator over the children and youth ministry. So I do a lot of work with just organizing the various things with the young people in the church, in the church, as well as outside of the church. I do a lot of community stuff. I used to work for rec and parks as well as one of the leaders there and again, doing things with the young people there.
Audrey Carter (02:03): I do work projects, last year. We did we received a grant for the cleanup project, some in the community. So I was able to hire some of the, young people in the community. And one of them was my grant. Well, yeah, one of them was my grandson and my other grandson tagged along. So I had to give him something. So when he was too young to officially work, but he was kind of there. And so, so we do cleanup projects, you know, with the community, also work with other churches, you know, their youth groups come in and we do clean-up projects. So either I go to them and help them out with their cleanup projects, bring, argue with them, that sort of thing, interacting. but that's pretty much, yeah, I, my ministry is pretty much with young people and doing various things with them.
Asset ID: 2021.09.01.a
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Photo by Kirby Griffin
