William Lawrence is a social movement organizer from Lansing MI. He is the coordinator of the MI Rent Is Too Damn High coalition, which is fighting for rent control, tenant rights, housing first policies and social housing in Michigan. He was previously a cofounder and national partnerships director of Sunrise Movement, the youth climate organization that put the Green New Deal on the national political agenda. He is also the host of the Hegemonicon podcast at Convergence Magazine. He is a 2008 graduate of East Lansing High School.