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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014
DETAILED AGENDA
Ai-jen Poo
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
(NDWA) and co-director of the Caring Across Generations campaign.
She has been organizing immigrant women workers since 1996. In
2000, she co-founded Domestic Workers United (DWU), the New York
organization that spearheaded the successful passage of the state’s historic
Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010. In 2007, DWU helped organize the
first national domestic workers convening, out of which formed the NDWA. Poo serves on the
board of directors of MomsRising, National Jobs with Justice, Working America, the National
Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and the National Council on Aging. Among Poo’s
numerous accolades are the Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision Award, the Independent Sector
American Express NGen Leadership Award, Newsweek’s list of 150 fearless women, and TIME’s
list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Lola Smallwood Cuevas
Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Lola Smallwood Cuevas is director of the Los Angeles Black Worker
Center as well as project director at the UCLA Labor Center. She also
coordinates the African American Union Leadership School (AAULS),
the first union leadership school in California focused on developing the
next generation of union leaders through popular education. Smallwood
Cuevas is co-author of the Labor Center’s publication Women’s Work: Homecare
Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement and of a chapter in the upcoming UCLA Bunche Center
publication Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. She served as the political
and community organizer for the SEIU National Security Organizing campaign in LA and built
a dynamic political coalition resulting in the first Black woman being named president of the
newly-organized Security Officers United in Los Angeles (SOULA 2006), where the coalition
participated directly in the union contract negotiating process.
10:20 AM – 11:05 AM
Defending Workers and Families Policy Council Breakout
Series
YEOs should divide by level of office to discuss the priority issues from this session and to
create the annual YEO agenda for this Policy Council.
• State Level (Malibu & Santa Monica Rooms)
• Local Level (Promenade Room)
• Local Level (Palisades Room)
• School Board (Catalina Room)
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