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Bill Wylie-Kellermann

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Bill Wylie-Kellermann is an American Methodist pastor, nonviolent community activist, and author. He was most recently a pastor of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Detroit. As member of the Homrich 9, he and the others chose to get arrested by blocking trucks coming to shut off water to residents of Detroit living in poverty. While a crowd gathered, he and the others prayed and sang with interlinked arms in front of Homrich, a company that was performing the shutoffs. Normally the company performed hundreds of shutoffs a day, but that day they only turned off a few. When the case went to trial in 2016, all charges were dismissed by Ronald Giles, chief judge of Michigan's 36th district court. Wylie-Kellermann has also been the direct action point person during the Michigan Poor People's Campaign.