St. Louis content creator Justin Kralemann, better known online as “The Woke Ginger,” has taken his former employer to court, saying he was fired after publicly calling out Enterprise Mobility over its ties to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in St. Louis County, claims the nonprofit Food Outreach Inc. unlawfully terminated Kralemann following his viral February social media post about Enterprise. He is seeking lost pay, damages and attorneys’ fees, according to St. Louis Magazine. The complaint says the post set off a chain of events that started with administrative leave and ended with his firing.
The suit states that Kralemann had worked at Food Outreach for eight years, eventually becoming senior director of development and strategic initiatives. His Instagram post criticizing Enterprise’s reported ICE connections pulled in more than 23,000 likes, with another roughly 1,400 likes on TikTok, the filing says. After the post took off, the nonprofit’s executive director allegedly told him, “I can’t believe I have to do this, but I have to put you on administrative leave related to your Enterprise content.” The complaint says Food Outreach officially terminated him on February 23.
Where He Worked
Food Outreach’s own staff and board pages list Kralemann as senior director of development and strategic initiatives and give the organization’s downtown address as 3117 Olive Street. Those same pages identify Craig Marsh, described as a director at Enterprise Holdings, as a board vice president. The complaint points to those overlapping roles as part of its narrative about the nonprofit’s relationship with Enterprise, citing information published by Food Outreach.
Enterprise And The Wider Controversy
Kralemann’s post did not land in a vacuum. It plugged into a running national fight over companies that do business with ICE, particularly around detention and deportation operations…