LEA
is a Xicana from Tejas living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a grassroots labor and immigration journalist for Working Class Heroes Radio and Law at the Margins. Lea became interested the issue of labor/workers rights after attempting to unionize her former workplace. As a movement lawyer in training, she seeks to be a resource and work alongside oppressed communities in their fight for justice.
DANNY
is a Queens-based socialist writer and activist who has written about and participated in many local struggles around labor conditions and deportations. He is the author of Socialism... Seriously and Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People and his articles have appeared in the Indypendent, Jacobin, Salon, Socialist Worker, Truthout, and the New York Daily News.
JULIAN
has been an activist and organizer since 2010 and lifelong New Yorker from Queens. The son of immigrant parents from Colombia, Julian has written for Jacobin, Truthout, Socialist Worker and has been part of several social movements engaged in CUNY student activism, immigrant’s rights efforts, the Black Lives Matter movement, criminal justice reforms, tenant organizing and labor fights.
BRENDA
is a Brown woman raised in so-called New York, she is a freelance journalist, producer, dancer, and people’s educator. She’s covered issues around food insecurity, mass incarceration, Puerto Rico’s recovery process post-hurricane Maria, gender violence, and displacement.
LUPITA
is a Mexican woman of indigenous roots living in Queens, New York. She has over a decade of experience in immigrant rights, workplace, and tenant organizing. She is now a writer, artist and legal advocate for low income New Yorkers.
CARLOS
is a native New Yorker, raised in the Bronx and a second generation immigrant by way of his family who hails from the Dominican Republic. A participant at Occupy Wall Street, Carlos became a student organizer at CUNY - Lehman College. He is a writer, reporter, and producer for the Working Class Heroes Radio.
YANNY
is a Chicana living in what is now known as the Bronx and daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico and Ecuador. She is a socialist, activist, and rank & file union member. She is a writer, reporter, website administrator, and a graphic designer for the WCH Radio. Currently she is a legal advocate for low income tenants in the Bronx.
KHADIJA
is a Muslim and revolutionary socialist organizer currently based in Washington, DC. She is the daughter of immigrant parents from Myanmar raised in Syracuse, NY. Khadija has been active for decades in movements from immigrants rights, indigenous rights, climate justice, Palestinian and Black liberation organizing and against imperialism and institutionalized Islamophobia.MEL
is a Brooklyn based workers' rights lawyer and son of immigrant parents from Dominican Republic. Most recently Mel has helped organize food delivery workers in NYC and has written about bail reform. Mel also is a filmmaker and musician.
