Essential Workers to Essential Needs: Conversations from the Frontlines
Channel: Partners for Dignity & Rights
Date: 2020-05-01

Partners for Dignity & Rights hosted Essential Workers to Essential Needs: Conversations from the Frontlines, on Thursday, April 30.

Cathy Albisa facilitated a conversation with organizations of essential workers and impacted communities. 

Featuring these front line leaders:
Cathy Albisa, Executive Director, Partners for Dignity & Rights

Poetry by Cynthia Dewi Oka
Report from Lupe Gonzalo, Farmworker Leader, and Marley 
Monacello, Interpreter, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Report from Tim Bell, Executive Director, Chicago Workers' 
Collaborative
Report from Magaly Licolli, Cofounder of Venceremos 
Report from Merle Payne, Co-Director of Centro de 
Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL)
Report from Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Worker 
Rights Consortium
Report from Marita Canedo, Program Coordinator at 
Migrant Justice
Report from Todd Cherkis, Co-founder, United Workers
Report from Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko, co-founder and 
co-coordinator Put People First! PA, co-chair PA Poor People’s Campaign and national steering committee member
Report from Letha Muhammad, Director, Education Justice 
Alliance and Dignity In Schools Coordinating Committee Member
Reflections from Regan Pritzker, Board President, The Libra 
Foundation.