Richard Self: “When I first met Martha, she was living in a motor home in Springfield with her wheelchair frozen to the ground during winter…”
Presenter: LEAGUE, the county’s Lived Experience Advisory Group for Unhoused Engagement, honors the late Martha Bryson. On July 11, advisory group Chair Richard Self:
Richard Self (LEAGUE, chair): We lost yet another member of LEAGUE and a champion for the unhoused for over 45 years. Martha Bryson passed away on Sunday and has been just a huge influence in what happens here with this group, with the CoC funding that she served on, and other elements of both the county and—
Even when she’s not a part of a group she has influence over it. So when things are said in the Human Rights Commission’s Homelessness and Poverty Work Group end up, some of what she says ends up in there and has always been a part of the discussion…