Harrie will continue to be an important voice for equality in Arkansas!
Biography
Harrie Farrow was raised in the US Virgin Islands and graduated summa cum laude from San Francisco State. She has lived in Eureka Springs, in the Arkansas Ozarks, since 1992. Harrie has been an investigative reporter, a features writer on LGBTQ issues, a restaurateur, and is currently working on her third novel.
As an LGBTQ advocate, in 2016 Harrie was invited as a “nominated change-maker” to the White House event, The United State of Women, and attended the Department of Justice’s symposium on violence against women. Later that year, she attended another White House event, Advancing LGBT Progress in Rural Communities.
During the Trump administration, Harrie was involved in several civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C. These include nine “good trouble” arrests to, protect healthcare, protest family separation at the border, interrupt the 2017 Senate GOP tax bill vote, and interrupt the Bret Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. During this time, she also served as the communications director for her local Indivisible resistance organization.
In 2018, 2020, and 2022 she was elected to represent her town in her county’s government. Harrie cares deeply about the future of her community, state, country, and the beautiful natural environment of the Ozarks.