Brendon Tucker, American Hero to Refugees

When you volunteer at the refugee camp in Matamoros, as we did in February, you can’t more than a few feet without running into Tucker’s work. He’s built or rebuilt infrastructure from outdoor sinks on up. He cooks. He’s very active in the medical tent. He helps out at the Resource Center. Plus he’s just a sweet human being. We interacted with him almost every day our delegation was there. But I never learned about his background, and am especially amazed to learn he came out of some really right-wing stuff.

Read this fascinating profile in Medium by Sarah Towle, who calls him “the redneck revolutionary”: https://medium.com/@HiStoryteller/meet-the-redneck-revolutionary-who-eschewed-rush-limbaugh-and-turned-off-fox-news-25c82a8abda4

—Shel Horowitz

Published by Shel Horowitz

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