Black History Month Profiles: Charlotte James

For Black History Month, we’re taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently actively making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also to improve conditions for working people across the country. Today’s profile is Charlotte James of AFSCME.

Charlotte James, a member of AFSCME District 1199C, is a mental health technician in the Temple University Health System at Episcopal Campus Inpatient Behavioral Health and Psychiatric Medicine. For a decade, she has stabilized patients in acute psychiatric crisis at one of the region’s few emergency mental health units. When she’s not caring for patients, James advocates for their access to care, traveling to Washington, D.C., trying to protect funding for mental health services.