Alicé (Ah-lee-see) Nascimento is a Brazilian organizer and campaign strategist. She started organizing in high school against the war in Iraq. She has worked in community organizing, policy, and media on a variety of campaigns ranging from Wall Street accountability to climate justice.

Amber is a native Memphian and a graduate of Hodges University with a Master of Legal Studies degree, Summa Cum Laude. She is a nationally known political strategist, activist, organizer, and podcaster who enjoys using her voice and platform to inspire her peers and the next generation.

Ana Maria Reichenbach found her passion in organizing while in college working with students and workers facing the effects of budget cuts and tuition hikes at public universities. She has worked in the labor and immigrant rights movements and also enjoys practicing herbalism.

Andrea is a lifelong Brooklynite who is passionate about building strong and stable communities. She came to the Met Council after getting her master's in Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work. She is also very active with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ).

Asha Ransby-Sporn is a Chicago-based organizer, strategist and writer. Asha was a co-founder of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) and has led on numerous issue, electoral, and coalitional campaigns with a focus on growing the power of Black communities and the broader left.

Catalina Perez is a youth worker and educator passionate about education justice and advocating for public schools. As the daughter of Colombian immigrants and an English Language learner, her experiences in Rhode Island schools inspired her to focus on educational organizing work.

Clara is an organizer and human rights lawyer who builds the power of the health sector to achieve community safety, housing, economic, and climate justice. She serves on the board of Freedom for Immigrants, working to abolish immigration detention.

Daniel Gorman has been a UFCW Local 342 member for over 20 years. He became active in the labor movement while working at A&P and earned degrees in Labor Relations and Labor Studies. Formerly a Union Representative, he now serves as Lead Bargainer and the Contracts Manager for Local 342.

Faviola Lopez is a worker organizer and proud daughter of Mexican immigrant parents who fought for a seat at the table. As a teenage mother, she became aware of the systemic racism holding back her community. Faviola works tirelessly to bring meaningful change to workers' lives.

Originally from Alabama, Hannah spent many years organizing in New York City. Now calling Orlando home, her work at Central FL Jobs with Justice involves co-creating movement infrastructure that supports leadership development, community-led power building, and long-term climate justice strategy.

Jason Lopez is an active unionist in Austin, TX. He is an accomplished leader with expertise in municipal government, local politics, and issues-based campaigns. He serves on the Executive Boards of AFSCME Local 1624 and the Texas AFL-CIO and is President of the Austin Central Labor Council.

Je Amaechi is a community organizer and healing justice advocate. She has a diverse background in program management, operations, tech, design and the healing arts. She's passionate about truly understanding both systems the mechanisms of the brain in service of healing trauma and building power.

Jennifer is the Deputy Director of Strategy at AAPIs for Civic Empowerment EF where she oversees the field and capacity building strategy. She started organizing in high school and has worked done labor and youth organizing. She enjoys being outdoors, doing DIYs, and hanging out with her 2 year old.

Justin Allen is an abolitionist human rights defender from New Mexico who started organizing against systemic injustices while incarcerated. He has continued organizing against state violence and mass incarceration, while continuing to base build for universal suffrage as Unlock Civics NM.

Kenneth Nixon, Baptist minister and senior organizer, worked on campaigns that successfully secured the funding and establishment of a Public Defender's Office in Prince William, Virginia, ending driver's license suspensions for court debt and securing over $500M to prevent home foreclosures.

Linda López Stone is an Ecuadorian immigrant, mother of three, and fierce advocate for immigrant rights and community empowerment. She mobilizes Latinas and immigrant families to drive justice, expand access, and create opportunities. Linda enjoys dancing, reading, and traveling.

Maddie Foutch is an organizer and strategist driven by love, joy and justice. She currently works on campaigns for economic justice with SEIU 775, where she fights with long term care workers for better jobs and social justice policies. She started organizing 15 years ago on climate justice issues.

Marlene Montañez is an immigrant, raised in south central Los Angeles. Her organizing started in high school to preserve the South Central Farm. She has been part of grassroots efforts for immigrant rights, policy efforts to protect worker rights, and housing fights. She loves gardening.

Meg is a transracial adoptee and an Asian American organizer. She has advocated for reproductive justice and immigrant rights at all levels of government including a federal bi-partisan bill that would grant citizenship to tens of thousands of undocumented international adoptees.

Micah McClure is a passionate Union Organizer who’s organized in 9 states and 30+ cities. Micah resides in Atlanta, GA and centers much of his work on the South- home of the harshest, anti-worker environments in the nation- to ensure a Southern strategy remains a central tenet to the labor movement.

Omar Angel Perez is a indigenous zapotec from the state of Oaxaca Mexico. Since he migrated to the USA in 2005, he's been organizing with the undocumented immigrant communities in different parts of the country, currently he serves as the director of the immigration justice program at FIA.

Anthony Tyson is a seasoned organizer, co-founded Black With No Chaser, a media brand advocating for Black liberation. As a Senior Organizer at Community Change, he drives digital equity, income support, and health justice for Black communities, focusing on empowerment and resilience across the diaspora.

Rosslyn Wuchinich became a union organizer by way of the feminist and global justice movements. Growing up in New York City and now raising their family in Philadelphia, they are committed to transforming their communities through mass organization of the multiracial, multigendered working class.

Setareh Ghandehari migrated to the U.S. with her family as a toddler. She has been involved in various social justice movements for over 20 years, most recently working to abolish immigration detention.

Victor Yang is a queer organizer based in Boston, from Kentucky plus China plus Canada. He's currently in labor but has been part of many community groups for racial, immigrant, and youth justice. Among his teachers are badass organizers in the Asian American movement.