I am a queer writer, organizer and fabric artist based in Philadelphia, PA. For over thirty-five years I’ve worked in movements for peace, workers’ rights, and migration rights. During my professional career, I held numerous roles within the Service Employees’ International Union, including a stint as the Executive Vice President and Political Director of SEIU Healthcare PA; another as interim director of the SEIU PA State Council; one as the Political and Communications Director for SEIU Local 36 (now a part of 32BJ); and in the very beginning, as a Worksite Organizer at SEIU Local 715 in San Jose, California.

I was the first director of Philadelphia-Area Jobs with Justice, and the founding director of the Pennsylvania Working Families Party. I also served as the Managing Director for the National Guestworkers Alliance, a project of the New Orleans Center for Racial Justice. Most recently, I’ve been the principal of the consulting firm New Working Majority. 

As a consultant, I was the Pennsylvania State Advisor of the Movement Voter Project for 4 years, I helped to form the Athena Table (which is fighting Amazon and big tech), and I coached dozens of executive directors, organizing directors and political directors in cities and states around the country.

I have been published in Wired Magazine, the New Labor Forum of CUNY, The Shape of Things to Come, and Ours to Hack & Own. For seven years, I authored the blog Hack the Union, about the intersection of work, technology and organizing.

I am the proud mother of Alina and Isaac, and hold a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. I am for artists and organizers, always. 

As an artist, I’m committed to the values that have imbued my paid organizing work. All of my designs are hand-stitched, and most are made from recycled, scrap, or thrifted fabrics and thread. Upcycled clothing is thrifted.