Molly Salas
Molly Salas (she/they) is a music supervisor and community advocate based in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Molly worked with neighbors to successfully landmark the Willoughby-Hart Historic District in Bed-Stuy in June 2024 to slow the tide of predatory displacement, honoring the legacy of Black Brooklyn and protecting it to persist. With an intergenerational and multiracial collective of Bed-Stuy neighbors, they work to expand the group’s learnings to help the preservation of other historic buildings and districts throughout Bed-Stuy. This protects not only architecture, but also memories and identity of place. The neighbor group won a Grassroots Preservation Award through the Historic Districts Council in 2023. Since, Molly’s advocacy work has focused on housing justice, community land trusts, and building collective power.
They are also part of the core team behind Soft Power Vote, a civic engagement initiative that creates voter guides and resources for every election in New York City, informing New Yorkers through the lens of art and pop culture, and by making the jargon of government and policy accessible and colloquial. Soft Power Vote is a member of NEW INC Y11.