My name is Nellie Hester Bailey, a retired local and international peace and justice fighter for over 60 years. Presently, I am seeking support for my failing eyesight and medical expenses with this gofundme. Bailey served as an International Election Observer in South African's first free elections in 1994, a delegate at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995, and led a Harlem delegation to the 1996 UN Conference on Human Habitat II in Istanbul, Turkey. Bailey is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Alston Bannerman Fellowship in 2001, the Union Square Award for Grassroots Activists in 2001; and a 2005 Proclamation from the New York City Council for services rendered to indigent tenants throughout the city.

Bailey hosted a weekly radio program "Inside Housing" on WHCR 90.3 FM Radio in Harlem and Behind The News, the World on WBAI Radio. Bailey also co-hosted Black Agenda Radio with the late journalist Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report.

Media outlets that have reported on the work of Bailey and the Harlem Tenants Council include the New York Times, the Amsterdam News, The Final Call, the Guardian, BBC World News, NPR, WBAI, NBC, ABC and others. In 2007 NY1 profiled Bailey and the work of the Harlem Tenants Council for its Black History Month program.