Lety is the Organizing Director at Sacred Heart Community Service. As an organizing manager at Sacred Heart, she supported the PASOS committee to a campaign win protecting the Calle Willow business district in 2021. Previously, she was an organizer with People Acting in Community Together (PACT) in San Jose, where she started as a volunteer leader at her church, working on campaigns on San Jose’s towing policy, driver’s licenses for immigrants, and county immigration protections.

Ariadna was born in Oaxaca, Mexico and grew up in East San José. She has over ten years experience working in movements for racial and economic justice as a community organizer on policies that put workers first. In 2022, she seeded Corazón y Pueblo, a social justice consulting business, that supports organizations to foster deep relationships, develop leaders, and empower collective and individual agency. Corazón y Pueblo is currently working with SOMOS Mayfair to accompany and build the next phase of FUERTES, the community-led economic justice that has incubated two successful worker-owned cooperatives. Ari is also known to love the outdoors, and she is honored to be the mother of two growing humans.

Lucila is a first generation immigrant from Guerrero, Mexico. She started organizing work when she got involved with Californians for Justice in high school, where she later became the Organizing Director. She has also worked for Councilmember Raul Peralez in the city of San Jose. She currently serves as the Political Director for Working Partnerships, USA. In her free time, Lucila enjoys spending time with her daughter, Maya, and taking walks in nature while listening to audiobooks.

Guadalupe is from Oaxaca, Mexico. She is an Indigenous woman, mother, and co-founder of worker cooperative De Colores Collective Consulting LLC, which believes in building a sustainable economy rooted in solidarity, cooperativism, human wellbeing and harmony with the environment. She has more than 25 years of experience working in the community and is currently a member of the FUERTES Economic Justice Central Committee, which centers advocacy as a way to support excluded workers, build power and fight for economic justice in East San Jose.

Isuri is the current Deputy Director of CHISPA OC, an organization building a powerhouse of young, Latinx organizers in Orange County. Isuri was raised in one of Santa Ana’s densest neighborhoods and grew up understanding her community’s resilience. She attended Santa Ana public schools and the University of California, San Diego where she earned degrees in International Studies – Political Science and Urban Studies Planning. In her free time, Isuri enjoys resting, exploring nature, traveling, and learning about financial independence from people of color.

Isela began to organize at the University of California Santa Cruz, fighting for higher pay for graduate students. In Isela’s current role as the Analyst for the Racial Equity Action Leadership (REAL) Coalition, they support over 100 nonprofit leaders advocating for racial justice in Silicon Valley.

Yaya Ruiz is the Organizing Director for the South Bay Chapter of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Yaya is a proud daughter and granddaughter of domestic workers. Yaya has been a freelance Spanish/ English movement interpreter for the past 18 years. In 2018 she co-founded a Bay Area social justice interpreter network. Yaya is a mother, justice seeker, dreamer and doer.

Since her first campaign in 2004, when she worked on increasing the Florida minimum wage, Tori has organized urban gardeners, affordable housing residents, white people for racial justice, and previously unhoused Californians. She organized with Sacred Heart starting in 2015, then became organizing director at a statewide advocacy organization before returning to Sacred Heart in 2022. Currently, she directs the Sacred Heart Organizing Institute.