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Mo Abusaft: Serving the Spartanburg Community for Years

The Law Office of Mo Abusaft believes that it is important to be deeply involved in the communities that it serves. In Spartanburg, Mo serves as the only Democrat on Spartanburg County Council representing 55,000 citizens on Spartanburg’s Southside, Northside, Una, Arkwright, portions of Moore and Roebuck. Mo has been recognized as the 2020 Inclusion Advocate of the Year for his bipartisan creation of the $6,000,000 small and minority-owned business aid package through Spartanburg County Council.

Additionally, he is the former President of the Spartanburg Branch of the NAACP and on the Spartanburg County Democratic Party’s Executive Board.

Beyond his political activities, Mo is the Founder of Spartanburg Juneteenth, Inc., a non-profit organization that educates the Spartanburg community about African American history primarily through an annual Juneteenth celebration.

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As a former athlete himself, he understands the power of athletics in the lives of young people. He, therefore, supports multiple athletic teams, including the Express Lane Track and Field Team, High Point Academy Girls Basketball Team, and Gaffney High School Varsity Football. The Express Lane Track and Field Team Family (ELTC) is an American Amateur Union (AAU) Track and Field Team organized to offer track and field experiences to Spartanburg County youth ages 6-18. His help enabled national qualifying athletes to attend the Nation AAU Track and Field Championship events hosted at the North Carolina A&T University sports venue in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Mo also deeply commits to his local faith community. As a student at Wofford College, he received the ELI fellowship for emerging leaders in the faith community. He continues this work in the faith community with frequent support from the Spartanburg County Ministerial Alliance. He is also the General Counsel for Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, one of Spartanburg’s historic African American congregations.

Additionally, his Chief of Staff, Deede Burgess, is noted as playing a pivotal role in the SC Spiders. This is a local basketball program created to give kids a chance to learn and play basketball at an exceptional level in an effort to facilitate admission into college with as little debt as possible. Her contributions aided in furthering the organization's goal to help child participants and coaches, photographers, and videographers achieve their aspirations in the industry.

Spartanburg Co. council member speaks on Sheriff Chuck Wright’s personal use of taxpayer dollars

Camp Cedine Ministries

Mo Abusaft is a lover of horses having learned at an early age to ride during domestic missionary work. During his time at Camp Cedine Ministries, he helped bring Christ to countless young by introducing them to God's creation. In 2007, Mo was honored as the Camp Cedine Missionary of the Year for his work as the Camp's Head Wrangler

SC Spiders Basketball Program

The SC Spiders is a local travel basketball program that was started in 2014 by Deede Burgess and her husband, Earl Burgess II. They started the program because they wanted to give their son and other kids a chance to learn and play really good basketball and hopefully get them into college with as little debt as possible. Deede is the General Manager of the program. She oversees locating and setting up gyms for practice, ordering uniforms, collecting funds for the program, and much more.

The coaching staff consists of men and women who volunteer their time at least twice a week for practice and between 2 and 3 weekends a month; some have kids on the team, but most do not.

They pride themselves on not just helping the kids achieve their goals but coaches, photographers, and videographers as well. They have had coaches who have only coached with the program to move on and get coaching jobs at school. The photographers and videographers have been pretty successful with the program as well.

Since Deede started the program, they have been able to help secure quite a few scholarships for some of the players. That is the GOAL of the program.

2024 Spartanburg Juneteenth Celebration

Spartanburg Juneteenth Inc. is one of Mo's most important accomplishments. He is Spartanburg Juneteenth Inc.'s founder and board chairman. Spartanburg Juneteenth Inc. is a 501c3 organization responsible for Spartanburg County's Official Juneteenth Celebration and has been operating since 2016 well before Juneteenth was recognized as a federal holiday. Spartanburg Juneteenth recognizes the rich history of African-American achievement in Spartanburg County.

County Council District 1 Food Program

The Final Word, Juneteenth 2020 Celebration

Inclusion Advocate of the Year

Spartanburg County Council members Monier Abusaft and Jessica Coker were recognized for their bipartisan support of the small minority-owned business community of Spartanburg County.