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Celebrating 5 Years of theNational Domestic Workers Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2012NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS

WASHINGTON, DC

DAMAYAN Migrant WorkersAssociationNew Yorkwww.damayanmigrants.org

Domestic Workers UnitedNew Yorkwww.domesticworkersunited.org

Haitian Women for HaitianRefugeesBrooklynhaitianwomen.wordpress.com

Hispanic Resource CenterWorkers CenterMamaroneckwww.hispanicresourcecenter.org

Las Mujeres de Santa MariaStaten Island

New Immigrant CommunityEmpowermentJackson Heightswww.nynice.org

Unity Housecleaners CooperativeHempsteadwww.workplaceprojectny.org

NEW MEXICOEncuentroAlbuquerquewww.encuentronm.org

TEXASFe y Justicia Worker CenterHoustonwww.houstonworkers.org

Southwest Workers UnionSan Antoniowww.swunion.org

VIRGINIATenants and Workers Unitedwww.tenantsandworkers.org

WASHINGTONCasa LatinaSeattlewww.casa-latina.org

WASHINGTON DCBreak the Chain Campaignwww.ips-dc.org/BTCC

COLORADOCentro HumanitarioDenverwww.centrohumanitario.org

FLORIDAOla de Mujeres, Miami WorkersCenterMiamiwww.miamiworkerscenter.org

GEORGIAAtlanta NDWA Chapter*Atlanta

ILLINOISARISE ChicagoChicagowww.arisechicago.org

Latino Union of ChicagoChicagowww.latinounion.org

La Colectiva de Mujeres TejiendoSueños y LuchandoChicago

MASSACHUSETTSBrazilian Immigrant CenterAllstonwww.braziliancenter.org

Brazilian Women’s GroupAllstonverdeamarelo.org/

Dominican Development CenterBostondominicancenter.net

Matahari: Eye of the DayBostoneyeoftheday.org/wp/

MARYLANDCASA de Marylandwww.casademaryland.org

NEW YORKAdhikaarWoodsidewww.adhikaar.org

Cidadao GlobalLong Island Citywww.cidadaoglobal.org

ALABAMASomos TuscaloosaTuscaloosawww.facebook.com/somos-tuscaloosa

ARIZONACentro Laboral de Mujeres por unMundo MejorTuscon

CALIFORNIACoalition for Humane ImmigrantRights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)Los Angeleswww.chirla.org

Filipino Advocates for JusticeOaklandwww.filipinos4action.org

Filipino Community CenterSan Franciscofilipinocc.org

Filipino Migrant CenterLong Beachfmcsc09.wordpress.com

Graton Day Labor CenterGratonwww.gratondaylabor.org

IDEPSCALos Angeleswww.idepsca.org

La Colectiva de MujeresSan Franciscowww.lacolectivasf.org

Mujeres Unidas y ActivasBay Areawww.mujeresunidas.net

People Organized to WinEmployment Rights (POWER)San Franciscowww.peopleorganized.org

Pilipino Workers’ Center ofSouthern CaliforniaLos Angeleswww.pwcsc.org

San Diego Day Laborers andHousehold Workers AssociationSan Diegowww.myajsd.org

NDWA MEMBER ORGANIZATIONSNDWA was founded in 2007 by 13 organizations from 5 states. As of November 2012, we now have 39member organizations and one local chapter in 24 cities in 14 states and the District of Columbia.

*Launched in 2012, the Atlanta Chapter is the first NDWA chapter. All other groups listed are independentorganizations that are a!liate members NDWA.

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PROGRAMWelcome

Simon Greer and Sarita GuptaMasters of Ceremonies

Leading with Love AwardsINSPIRATION

Guillermina CastellanosDEDICATIONLinda OalicanPresented by

Arlene Holt-Baker

Voice of Love AwardViola DavisPresented byMarcia Olivo

Lifetime of Leadership AwardCicely TysonPresented by

Jerret Johnson

Leading with Love AwardsCOMMITMENTCasa Latina

VISIONDomestic Workers United

LOVEMujeres Unidas y Activas

Presented byMaya Harris

RemarksIlyse Hogue and Tracy Sturdivant, NDWA Board of Directors

Ai-jen Poo, NDWA Director

Musical PerformancesMike McCoy and Voices United

Taller Cosita Seria

Artist-in-ResidenceMichele Asselin

Celebrating 5 Years of the National Domestic Workers Alliance

Simon Greer

Maya Harris

Benjamin Jealous

Manuel Pastor

Cecile Richards

Richard L. Trumka

Luz Vega-Marquis

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HONORARY CO-HOSTS

SPONSORS1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East

1199 SEIU—Pennsylvania

32BJ SEIU

Advancement Project

AFL-CIO

AFSCME

Ben & Jerry’s Foundation

Bend the Arc:A Jewish Partnership for Justice

Jules Bernstein

Caring Across Generations

The Marguerite Casey Foundation

Center for Community Change

The Center for Social Inclusion

CWA

Family Values at Work Consortium

Ford Foundation

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Hand in Hand:The Domestic Employers Association

IUF—International Union of Food,Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering,Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations

Jobs with Justice

Gara LaMarche

Dr. Kathleen Maloy

MomsRising

MoveOn

NAACP

National Council of La Raza

National Education Association

PICO

The Praxis Project

Phil Radford & Eileen Simpson

SEIU Healthcare 775 NW

SEIU ULTCW

Solidago Foundation

Alexander Soros

UNITE HERE

V-Day

Katrina vanden Heuvel

WIEGO—Women in Informal Employment:Globalizing and Organizing

Working Families Party

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WELCOMEWhen I first started organizing domestic workers in New York in1998, it was a challenge to bring a handful of women together inthe church basement where we gathered. In the shadows of urbancenters like New York, domestic work was defined by invisibility,isolation and vulnerability. It was di!cult to reach workers, and

even more di!cult to move past the fear many women felt about coming to a meeting. Despitethe undeniably vital role that domestic workers play in our lives, caring for our families andhomes, they are excluded from basic labor rights and face some of the worst workplace abusesimaginable. The culture of fear and vulnerability in the industry at that time was palpable.

Over the course of the past 15 years, a beautiful transformation has taken place. While vulner-ability and fear still exist for the vast majority of domestic workers, today, in 24 cities, 14 statesand Washington, DC., there are centers of safety, strength and community for domestic workers.In these centers, domestic workers find their voice, develop their skills, and cultivate thecapacity to lead, inspire and change the world around them.

In Oakland, we support one another in story circles, while in New York, we passed statewidelegislation to bring an end to the unjust exclusion of domestic workers from basic labor rights.In Park Slope, we are working with employers to develop neighborhood-based “codes of care.”In Seattle, Maryland, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami, we are building a national, intergenera-tional coalition of more than 200 organizations to work together for a more caring, just economyfor all of us. In large and small ways, domestic workers are leading the way. It’s powerful, and it’sdeeply rooted in love—love for our families and for who we can become as a nation together.

In his 1967 speech titled, “Where do we go from here?,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “One of thegreat problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrastedas opposites—polar opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and powerwith a denial of love. . . . What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless andabusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implement-ing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that standsagainst love.”

In the spirit of Dr. King, and the boundless love with which domestic workers care for our familiesand the future of the country, we celebrate five powerful years. We’re so grateful to share inthe moment and the movement with you. Thank you.

Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

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New York Women’s FoundationAli NooraniAna Oliveira

Jeremy OsbornChris Owens

National Employment Law ProjectPurva Panday Cullman

Gail PendeltonASISTA Immigration Assistance

PHI–Quality Care through QualityJobs

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree*(ME-01)

Miles RappoportCongressman Cedric L. Richmond*

(LA-2)Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

CongresswomanLucille Roybal-Allard* (CA-34)

Justin RubenMatt RyanALIGN

Rinku SenApplied Research Center

Eveline ShenForward Together

Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter*(NY-28)

Marilyn Sneiderman &Stephen Lerner

Congresswoman Jackie Speier*(CA-12)

Alta StarrTracy SturdivantNik Theodore

Congressman Edolphus Towns*(NY-10)UNITY

Alan van CapelleVermont Workers Center

Working AmericaWomen Donors Network

Miriam Yeung

9to5Katherine AceyChristine Ahn

Global Fund for WomenAkonadi Foundation

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano(CA-13)

Deepak BhargavaKim Bobo

Interfaith Worker JusticeMay Boeve

Breakthrough TVJennifer Bu!etPeter Bu!et

Doyle CanningSmartMeme

Arturo CarmonaPresenteJerri Chou

Congressman Hansen Clarke*(MI-13)

Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay*(MO-1)

Congressman Elijah Cummings*(MD-7)Demos

Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards*(MD-04)Eve Ensler

Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo(CA-14)*

Bridgit Antoinette EvansKim Fellner

Feminist Majority FoundationTrevor & Meredith FitzGibbon

Elspeth GilmoreGeorge GoehlSara Gould

Ken Grossinger &Micheline KlagsbrunPronita GuptaSarita GuptaDonna P. HallIlyse Hogue

Margaret HuangRights Working Group

Institute for Policy StudiesInstitute for Women’s

Policy ResearchInterfaith Worker JusticeInternational Domestic

Workers NetworkCongressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.*

(IL-02)Van JonesSi Kahn

Helen KimRoger Kim

Asian Pacific EnvironmentalNetwork

Deborah King1199 SEIU Training andEmployment Funds

Vivien LabatonRachel LaForest

Right to the City AllianceCongresswoman Barbara Lee*

(CA-9)Eric Liu

Idelisse MalavéCongresswoman Carolyn Maloney*

(NY-14)Katherine McFate

OMB WatchPam McMichael

Highlander Research andEducation CenterHeather McGheeTara McGuiness

Center for American ProgressBill McKibben

Nancy Meyer & Marc WeissPat Mitchell

Janet MurguíaNational Asian Pacific American

Women’s ForumNational Network for Immigrant

and Refugee RightsLuke Newton

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HOST COMMITTEE

* Honorary Host Committee Member

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GUILLERMINA CASTELLANOSLeading with Love Award Inspiration

Guillermina Castellanos has been a leader of the domestic worker movement for over 20 years.Born in Jalisco, México, she began working as a domestic worker as a child and continued afterimmigrating to the U.S. in 1985. Her mother was also a domestic worker, working as a housecleaner, and her father was a gardener and farmer.

In 2000, together with Renee Saucedo, she co-founded La Colectiva de Mujeres (Women’sCollective) in San Francisco. As an organizer with La Colectiva, Guillermina has developed theleadership of hundreds of women, helping them organize for respect and dignity and alwayswith the goal of transforming their lives. In 2004, building on the experiences of their members,La Colectiva began a domestic workers campaign, which continues to this day.

In 2005, Guillermina joined the Board of Directors of the National Day Labor OrganizingNetwork. She participated in the founding of the National Domestic Workers Alliance in 2007,and then served on NDWA’s Coordinating Committee. She was also among the NDWA-coordinated US delegation to the International Labor Organization Conference in Geneva,which passed the first International Convention on Domestic Work in 2011.

Guillermina has been honored for her dedicated leadership by La Raza Centro Legal (2006,for 10 years of community work) and Mujeres Unidas y Activas (2010, for 20 years of leadership).In her work, Guillermina has valued communication and equality, which she feels have beenessential to keeping La Colectiva united and mobilized. She is deeply committed to social,political and economic change. Working for a better world nourishes her every day.

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LINDA OALICANLeading with Love AwardDedication

Linda Oalican is the Co-Founder and the Overall Coordinator of DAMAYAN Migrant WorkersAssociation. Originally from the Philippines, she grew up in a family of peasants. Governmentscholarships enabled her to study at the University of the Philippines. As a student of PoliticalScience in the 1970’s, she planned to complete her studies in just three years to help herstruggling family that had migrated to Manila from the countryside in search of a better life.She abandoned that plan, joining the thousands of young Filipino students who helped leadthe movement for economic, political and social change in the country.

In the next decade, she worked for the Philippine government where she became a unionorganizer. However, her salary was not enough to send her two children to college, and so in1994, like many other women around the world, she migrated to the U.S. In the U.S., she firstworked as a domestic worker and personally experienced abuse, discrimination and isolation.Drawing upon her organizing background, in 2002 Linda co-founded DAMAYAN with fellowFilipina domestic workers, to collectively address the abuses she and others experienced.

In 2004, she received the Union Square Award for her advocacy for New York City low-incomecommunities. With a deep commitment to the leadership of domestic workers, she has supportedhundreds of Filipina domestic workers, including dozens of tra!cking survivors in their devel-opment as advocates. Linda continues to be a strong leader in the movement for domesticand all migrant workers’ rights, dignity and justice.

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VIOLA DAVISVoice of Love Award

Uplifting the Voices of Domestic Workers in Popular Culture

Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television and theater who has won rave reviewsfor her diverse roles and performances. Her 2011 portrayal of domestic worker Aibileen Clark in theOscar-nominated film “The Help” captivated audiences and critics alike. Set in Jackson, Mississippi,during the 1960’s, “The Help” chronicles the relationship between two African American domesticworkers and a white domestic employer who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writingproject chronicling the experience of domestic workers, putting them all at risk. Davis earned aScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Leading Role and aCritics’ Choice Award for Best Actress for her performance, and was also nominated for theAcademy Award, Golden Globe Award and British Academy Film Award. The film won a ScreenActors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and a Critics’Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble.

In 2008, Davis starred in the critically acclaimed film “Doubt” based on the Tony Award winningplay. Davis was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and anAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance; The National Board of Reviewrecognized Davis with the Breakthrough Award and she was also honored by the Santa BarbaraFilm Festival as a Virtuoso. Davis’ film and theater credits are innumerable. Other film rolesinclude “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” “Knight and Day,” “Eat, Pray, Love,” “It’s Kind of aFunny Story,” “Nights in Rodanthe,” “Antwone Fisher,” “Madea Goes to Jail,” “State of Play,”“Law Abiding Citizen,” “Disturbia,” “The Architect,” “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” “Syriana,” “Far fromHeaven,” “Solaris,” “Tra!c” and “Out of Sight.”

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On the stage, Davis has received the theater’s highest honors on and o"-Broadway, including aTony Award, Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award forher role in August Wilson’s Broadway revival of “Fences;” the production was also honored withthe Tony Award for Best Play Revival. Her role in Lynn Nottage’s play “Intimate Apparel” garneredher the Drama Desk, the Drama League, the Obie and the Audelco Award for Best Actress, andshe was nominated for the prestigious Lucille Lortel Award as well. Her reprisal of the role in LosAngeles brought her the Ovation, Los Angeles Drama Critics and the Garland Awards. She alsoearned a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama DeskAward for role in “King Hedley II.”

Davis’ television credits include a co-starring role in the A&E mini-series “The Andromeda Strain;”a multi-episode appearance in “United States of Tara;” a recurring role on “Law & Order: SVU;”a recurring role in the CBS mini-series franchise “Jesse Stone;” a starring role in “Life is Not aFairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story” for Lifetime; and starring roles in ABC’s “Traveler,” CBS’“Century City,” “Lefty,” and the Steven Bochco series, “City of Angels.” Additionally, she had rolesin Oprah Winfrey’s “Amy and Isabelle,” and Hallmark Hall of Fame’s “Grace and Glorie.”

In 2012, Viola and her husband Julius Tennon founded JuVee Productions, a multi-ethnic productioncompany committed to excellence in film, television and theatre. As one of their projects, theyhave optioned the rights to Ann Weisgarber’s 2008 book The Personal History of Rachel DuPree,which examines the harsh racial struggles facing the rarely explored lives of black pioneers to theAmerican West.

Davis, the daughter of a domestic worker, is a graduate of The Julliard School and holds anHonorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Degree from her alma mater, Rhode Island College. She residesin Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

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CICELY TYSONLifetime of Leadership Award

Actress, activist and humanitarian, Cicely Tyson is renowned for her portrayals of strong femalecharacters on stage, screen and television, including boundary-breaking roles for women of color.

From her first appearances, her critically acclaimed performances are innumerable. Among themare her landmark, Emmy award-winning role of the title character in “The Autobiography of MissJane Pittman,” which garnered her Best Actress and Actress of the Year; her performance in “TheOldest Confederate Widow Tells All;” her starring role in “Sweet Justice;” her Oscar nominatedperformance for Best Actress in “Sounder;” stunning early stage appearances in “Dark Of TheMoon” and Jean Genet’s “The Blacks,” for which she received the prestigious Vernon Rice Award;and her touching portrayal in 2010 of Constantine Je"erson in “The Help,” which was awardedamong others, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in aMotion Picture and the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble.

Ms. Tyson’s earliest entree into television was in an adaptation of Paule Marshall’s novel BrownGirl, Brownstones. Shortly thereafter she became both the first woman of color to co-star in atelevision drama series, “East Side, West Side,” and a series regular on a daytime televisionsoap opera, “The Guiding Light.” Other prominent performances include: Harriet Tubman in thetelevised special “A Woman Called Moses;” Tante Lou in “A Lesson Before Dying;” Binta, themother of Kunte Kinte in “Roots;” Marva Collins in “Welcome To Success: The Marva CollinsStory;” and Coretta Scott King in “King,” all of which earned her Emmy nominations. Memorablefilm credits also include “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,” “A Man Called Adam,” “Diary Of A MadBlack Woman,” “Why Did I Get Married Too?” and “Because of Winn-Dixie.”

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As an activist and advocate, Ms. Tyson has taken her talent and leadership across the world.She served as Mistress of Ceremonies at the 1988 Economic Summit of World Leaders in Texas;as Chairperson of UNICEF; worked with key African leaders of Africa including Mr. and Mrs.Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; has travelledextensively throughout Africa on behalf of women and children in need; and lead a fundraisingand school-rebuilding e"ort in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami.

Her presence has been equally powerful in the United States. She delivered a key address at the1984 Democratic National Convention; served as Mistress of Ceremonies for President Clinton’s2001 “Welcome to Harlem,” and as Emcee for the Democratic National Committee’s “A Night atthe Apollo” fundraiser for voter registration; has performed at the White House; and, as memberof the Presidential Commission on the Development of the National Museum of African AmericanHistory and Culture, has been said to be a driving force in the development of the museumwhich will open in 2015.

Among her many accolades, Ms. Tyson finds the most meaning in her role as matriarch of theCicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts. Founded in 1996 in East Orange,New Jersey, the school serves 1, 200 students from Pre-K through 12th grade, focusing onacademic learning and creative expression. Ms. Tyson teaches, initiated and oversees a Distin-guished Speaker’s Series, and is always available to personally mentor and counsel students inevery area of their education.

Cicely Tyson has been widely recognized for her talent, dedication and leadership. Prior honorsinclude an unprecedented number of Image Awards from the NAACP and the organization’shighest accolade, the prestigious Spingarn Award and honors from the National Council ofNegro Women, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Congress of Racial Equality,Rainbow-PUSH, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center and the National Women’s Law Center. Shehas received the Women in Film Crystal Award, for the impact her work has had expanding therole of women within the entertainment industry; been honored by Essence Magazine and BET;was the focus of special events and retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, TheSmithsonian Institute and Harvard University; and Sony Films named her a Master Film Innovator.

Ever the creative artist and teacher, Ms. Tyson has written numerous articles for The New YorkTimes, Ebony Magazine and Time Magazine, and has spoken at over 500 colleges and universitiesthroughout the world on human rights, education and race relations. She holds numeroushonorary doctorates and her star graces the iconic Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

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CASA LATINALeading with Love Award Commitment

Casa Latina (CL) is a workers center in Seattle that organizes Latino immigrant domesticworkers and day laborers so that they can raise the value of their work and improve theirworking conditions. CL is a founding member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance andcurrently sits on the NDWA Board of Directors.

Immigrant housekeepers who are members of CL formed Mujeres Sin Fronteras/Women WithoutBorders in 2011. Since then, Mujeres Sin Fronteras has trained hundreds of women workers inhealth and safety, doubling its membership in the past year.

With support from NDWA, CL established a local steering committee for the groundbreakingCaring Across Generations campaign, including SEIU 775 NW, the Washington CommunityAction Network and Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action. Casa Latina helped tocoordinate and host the Seattle Care Congress in February 2012, which brought together over200 care workers, care recipients and their families to share stories and develop a sharedvision for dignity and respect.

The success of this work resulted in a victory just months later when the Seattle City Councilpassed a unanimous resolution for solutions to the care crisis that support both the peoplewho need care and the workers providing care.

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DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITEDLeading with Love AwardVision

Domestic Workers United (DWU) is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies,housekeepers and elder care givers in New York City. A leader in regional, national and inter-national domestic worker organizing, DWU members organize for power, respect and fair laborstandards, and to help build a movement to end exploitation for all.

DWU was founded in 2000 by members of the Women Workers Project of CAAAV (a Filipinadomestic workers organization) in collaboration with Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers.DWU is a founding member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and in 2010 DWUrepresented NDWA as a founding member of the International Domestic Workers Network. DWUhas won more than $500,000 in unpaid wages for exploited domestic workers and graduatedhundreds of domestic workers from their Nanny Training Program at Cornell University ILRProgram and more than 50 domestic workers from their Leadership Training Program.

After a six and half-year organizing e"ort, building a membership of more than 4,000 domesticworkers and a broad coalition including employers, unions, clergy and community groups, DWUsuccessfully won the passage of the nation’s first state legislation extending basic rights todomestic workers. The New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights was signed into law on August31, 2010. This historic victory has helped pave the way for similar e"orts in other states. DWUis now leading the implementation of the NY law through outreach, education and buildingneighborhood-based partnerships while providing critical support to Bill of Rights campaignsin states around the country.

DWU is the largest domestic workers organization in the country, and serves as a model fororganizations and unions around the world. As a member-led organization, DWU welcomes alldomestic workers committed to winning respect and fair labor standards, and building apowerful movement for social change.

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MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVASLeading with Love AwardLove

Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) has worked for over 20 years promoting the personal transfor-mation of Latina immigrant women and building community power for social and economicjustice. MUA is a leader of the growing domestic worker rights movement.

MUA creates an environment of understanding and confidentiality, empowering and educatingtheir members as peer counselors, outreach and education workers and community organizers;o"ering trainings to build economic security and leadership; working in diverse alliances; andorganizing campaigns to win immigrant, workers’ and women’s rights. From the streets to thestate house, MUA members have organized to ensure that their voices are heard and respected.MUA ensures that the women directly a"ected by discriminatory immigration policies are leadingvoices for immigrant rights while working to ensure that immigrant women are able to accessbasic health and social services, and protections such as the Violence Against Women Act.

MUA raises awareness about the rampant abuses facing domestic workers while working toend the exclusion of domestic workers from basic labor protections, playing a key role in state,national and international coalitions. In 2005, MUA spearheaded the creation of the CaliforniaDomestic Worker Coalition, which is leading the fight to pass a Domestic Worker Bill of Rightsin California, bringing recognition to the critical role domestic workers play in the state’s econ-omy. MUA members have also led participatory research on the domestic work industry, whichresulted in the ground-breaking 2007 report on domestic work conditions, Behind Closed Doors.

MUA is a founding member organization of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and currentlyserves on NDWA’s Board of Directors. MUA’s Co-Director Juana Flores was an o!cial delegate tothe historic 2011 International Labor Organization Conference, which passed the first Conventionon Decent Work for Domestic Workers. As a leader in the field, MUA has offered technicalassistance to over 50 emerging immigrant women’s and domestic worker groups across thecountry.

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MASTERS OF CEREMONIES

Simon Greer became President and CEO of the Nathan CummingsFoundation in January 2012 after a seven-year tenure at theProgressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice (PJAand JFSJ; now Bend the Arc). During his time there, Simon led theorganization through a period of institutional growth, includingdeveloping the largest domestic Jewish service learning programin the U.S., an array of cutting edge leadership training programs

and successful funder collaboratives, and moving millions of dollars in low-interest loans to helprevive the Gulf Coast after Katrina. In 2011, Simon was named to the Forward 50, an annual listof the country’s most influential Jews. Simon has worked as a labor and community organizerand social change leader for 20 years. He founded Jews United for Justice, an urban socialchange group in Washington DC, and served as the executive director for New York Jobs withJustice.

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SARITA GUPTASarita Gupta is the Executive Director of Jobs with Justice (JwJ)and American Rights at Work (ARW). In over 45 communities in25 states, JwJ local coalitions are building a strong, progressivelabor movement working in partnership with community, faith andstudent organizations. American Rights at Work is an independentlabor policy and advocacy organization dedicated to advancingthe right to organize and collectively bargain. This Fall, JwJ and

ARW are emerging as one organization united by a common mission to advance workers’ rightsand social and economic justice.

Sarita began organizing as a student on campus and was elected president of the U.S. StudentAssociation (1997–1998). She has 15 years of local, national, and global coalition-building expe-rience and serves on numerous Boards including the International Labor Rights Forum, theNational Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Inter-Alliance Dialogue/UNITY, the Institute for Policy Studies and Discount Foundation. Along withNDWA’s director Ai-jen Poo, Sarita is Co-Director of Caring Across Generations.

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PRESENTERS

Arlene Holt-Baker is in her second term as the Executive VicePresident of the AFL-CIO. She is the first African American to beelected to one of the federation’s three highest o!ces and thehighest ranking African-American woman in the union movement.

Her experience as a union and grassroots organizer spans morethan 30 years. Arlene began her union work with AFSCME, as an

organizer, union representative and Area Director in California. She served on California’sComparable Worth Task Force Committee and as First Vice Chair of the California DemocraticParty. Arlene came to the AFL-CIO as Executive Assistant to Executive Vice President LindaChavez-Thompson in 1995. During her tenure, she has lead numerous campaign initiativesincluding the 98 Paycheck Deception in California, the AFL-CIO Florida recount, the AFL-CIOVoice@Work Campaign and the AFL-CIO Gulf Coast Recovery e"ort.

She has served as President of Voices for Working Families, a non-partisan voter participationorganization dedicated to registering, educating, mobilizing and protecting the votes of com-munities of color and women, and has received numerous civic awards for her work as a laborand community advocate.

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MAYA HARRISMaya Harris is Vice President of the Ford Foundation’s Democracy,Rights and Justice program, where she leads its efforts tostrengthen the rule of law, increase civic participation, improvegovernment transparency and accountability, and protect humanrights for all people; she also oversees the foundation’s regionalprogramming in Latin America. Before joining the foundation,Maya was Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

of Northern California, the largest ACLU a!liate in the U.S., where she oversaw the organization’slitigation, public education, lobbying and grassroots organizing work. During her tenure there,she served as lead counsel for the ACLU-NC in League of Women Voters v. McPherson, whichrestored the voting rights of more than 100,000 Californians who were wrongfully disenfran-chised. Prior to the ACLU, Maya conducted research and policy advocacy on policing issues atPolicyLink and worked in civil litigation at the law firm of Jackson Tufts Cole and Black, LLP. Shewas dean of Lincoln Law School of San Jose, and, as an adjunct law professor, taught genderdiscrimination and contracts. She has also published commentary in numerous media outlets.

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Marcia Olivo, originally from the Dominican Republic, is the GenderJustice Coordinator at the Miami Workers Center. Upon movingto the U.S. in 1989, Marcia worked as community organizer withthe Bronx-based Mothers on the Move and the North West BronxCommunity and Clergy Coalition. Upon relocating to Miami in2000, Marcia worked with the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center,and coordinated the Florida Immigrant Coalition. After being a

full-time mom for six years, in 2008 Marcia became the coordinator of a support group forwomen and children survivors of domestic violence, Sisterhood of Survivors. The Sisterhoodmerged with the Miami Workers Center to become the Gender Justice Council of the organi-zation. The Council now supports domestic worker organizing, promotes gender equality, andprovides women leaders with a platform to share their experiences. Marcia resides in MiamiShores with her husband and two sons.

MARCIA OLIVO

JERRET JOHNSONJerret Johnson currently lives in Atlanta, GA, where she is forminga new chapter of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. In thefall of 2011, Jerret led the survey collection in Atlanta as part ofNDWA’s national domestic worker survey project. Prior to this,Jerret worked as a housecleaner, janitor and home health-aide for10 years, first in her hometown of Detroit and later in Atlanta.As a result of these experiences, Jerret committed to working to

expand the rights of domestic workers to bring dignity and respect to the workforce. In additionto being a member of the NDWA, Jerret is also a Board member of the Atlanta chapter of 9to5Working Women’s Association. She is a single parent of daughter Cheyenne Johnson, a junior atHampton University majoring in Political Studies. Jerret that believes when you educate andprovide leadership development to people, it empowers them to play an active role in bringingchange to their communities.

LEADINGwith Love

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: MICHELE ASSELINMichele Asselin began her photographic career in the Middle East,covering current events for the Associated Press. Her imageswere also featured in The New York Times, La Liberation and TheDaily Sun among others. After she returned to the U.S., shebegan to focus on portraiture, and over the past ten years, Asselin’swork has been featured in many global campaigns and leadingpublications, including The New Yorker and The New York TimesMagazine. She has photographed many notable public figures,from Hilary Clinton to Je" Koons, and been recognized byAmerican Photography, Communication Arts and Photo DistrictNews. In 2009, after having her first child, Asselin turned her

camera inward. Images from her inaugural project, “Full Time Preferred: Portraits of Love, Workand Dependence,” were recently included in a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition,“Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood.” Born in New York, Asselin currentlylives in New York and Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

PERFORMERS: TALLER COSITA SERIATaller Cosita Seria is a Washington DC-based workshop thatbrings people together to share in the traditions of communitysong from southeastern Mexico. With their origins in the fandangojarocho—a community celebration with indigenous, African andMestizo roots—these traditions center on Son Jarocho as a wayto bring people together, learn about our shared histories, andconfront the challenges of everyday life with strings in our handand a powerful poem in our hearts. Cosita Seria literally means

‘serious little thing,’ something seemingly simple and everyday, cotidiano, but reflecting a wayof life that they really are serious about, and believe in defending.

PERFORMERS: MIKE MCCOY AND VOICES UNITEDVoices United, a Washington DC-based ensemble, is comprised of25 choir directors, pastors, preachers, praise and worship leaders,musicians and evangelists from local churches. The ensemble wasfounded by Mike McCoy, a musician and songwriter who has workedwith some of gospel’s musical giants, including the late ThomasWhitfield, Shirley Caesar and Vanessa Williams. Organized in 1994,Voices United’s style incorporates contemporary sound butmaintains traditional gospel flavor. They have sung with renownedartists including Vickie Winans, Jonathan Nelson, and The SevenSons of Soul, and have been widely recognized, including beingnamed in 2010 the “Stellar Award Nominees for Contemporary

Choir of the Year.” For several years Voices United have worked with the Department of SocialServices to sponsor families during Thanksgiving and Christmas, and, in response to the crises inHaiti, they participated in a benefit tribute with the legendary Kirk Franklin. Their live CDs include“Ready” (2000) and “Continue to Continue” (2008). More about Voices United is at mikemccoy.info.

OUR STORYThe Re-birth of a National

Domestic Workers Movement

The founding of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) inAtlanta, GA in 2007 was both a culmination and a new beginning. Itwas the culmination of a process, at first tentative and then increasinglyurgent, of sharing lessons and strategies among a far-flung group oflocal domestic worker organizations. And it was the beginning of morecollaborative, more powerful, and more interdependent nationalorganizing for the rights and dignity of nannies, housecleaners andelder caregivers.

The women who gathered in Atlanta hotel rooms during the U.S.Social Forum, June 27–July 1, 2007, were intent on finding ways toconnect and to co-create a stronger foundation for domestic workerorganizing. They were energized by their common mission and bythe surprise and deep satisfaction of finding their counterparts andforging a new sisterhood across geography, nationality and language.They were also buoyed by the powerful currents of global andnational change that flowed just below the surface of domestic workerorganizing.

Domestic worker organizing gained momentum as women immigrants—part of the great late 20th century wave of workers pushed out oftheir home countries by punishing international economic policies—entered the very narrow range of occupations available to them.

Domestic workers demanded rights as new worker organizing, outsideof traditional union models, took o" in the 1990s. Organizations withstrong roots in local communities, most especially in immigrant com-munities, advocated for workers who were overlooked, or consideredimpossible to organize, by the traditional labor movement. Day laborers,agricultural workers, restaurant workers and garment workers foundstrength in collective action, and domestic workers learned from theirexample.

Domestic workers found their voice as the immigrant rights movementtook to the streets to challenge the raw hostility directed at the foreign-born, particularly in the aftermath of 9/11.

THE HISTORY OF NDWA

MID 1990s

Local organizations beganorganizing domestic workersprimarily in New York, WashingtonDC, San Francisco and LosAngeles to address specificworker abuse and to pass poli-cies to extend labor protectionsto domestic workers.

JUNE–JULY 2007

NDWA is founded by 13 organi-zations from 5 states at the firstUS Social Forum in Atlanta, GA.

SEPTEMBER 2008

International Domestic WorkersNetwork is founded to push fora Decent Work for DomesticWorkers Convention at theInternational Labor Organization.NDWA serves on the SteeringCommittee.

OCTOBER 2009

NDWA meets with the Depart-ment of Labor to proposeregulatory reforms to strengthenlabor rights enforcement fordomestic workers.

SPRING 2010

First state anti-immigrant legis-lation introduced in AZ; NDWAholds a Women’s Human RightsDelegation on Mother’s Day inAZ and launches We BelongTogether campaign to lift upthe impact of immigration en-forcement policies on womenand children. NDWA later sentsimilar delegations to GA, AL, TNand Tijuana Mexico in 2011–12.

JUNE 2010

NDWA holds Second NationalCongress at the USSF in Detroit,with 200 workers from morethan 20 organizations. Launchedthe United Workers Congress(formerly the Excluded Worker’sCongress) to bring togetherworkers excluded from basiclabor rights.

AUGUST 2010

NY Domestic Workers Bill ofRights, the first of its kind inU.S. history, signed into law.

FALL 2010

National Research Projectlaunches to complete the firstnational report on the domesticworker industry.

JANUARY 2011

California Domestic Worker’sBill of Rights submitted to thelegislature.

MAY 2011

NDWA launches SOL (Strategy,Organizing, Leadership), a2-year capacity building andleadership training program, incollaboration with Social JusticeLeadership and generativesomatics.

Domestic worker organizing gained its footing as young organizers,schooled in gender studies, took the “intersectionality” of gender,race and class out of the universities and back into movements forsocial justice, where it had originally been born.

And it was fitting that NDWA was born in Atlanta, home to one of themany direct foremothers of the current stage of domestic workerorganizing. Dorothy Bolden led the Atlanta-based National DomesticWorkers Union of America in the 1960s and 70s. She understood thefight for better working conditions as a matter of basic human rightsand she urged Atlanta’s domestic workers to put their hearts andsouls into building their organization. “Stop putting your humanrights on a lay-away plan and installment plan,” she said, “dollar down,dollar when we can get it. Because we will never get it this way.”

Ms. Bolden was herself building on the precedent of the Atlantawasherwomen’s strike of 1881, led by the Washing Society. Thousandsof African American domestic workers refused to do their employers’laundry, and struck for better pay and better working conditions.

There were fertile periods of domestic worker organizing in the 1930sand the 1960s–1970s. Domestic workers built the Domestic WorkersAssociation, Domestic Servants Union, Working Women of America,Association of Women Wage Earners, Household Technicians ofAmerica, and the National Committee on Household Employment,among other organizations, to break the isolation characteristic ofcleaning and care-giving for wages in other people’s homes. No doubtthe names of many individuals and organizations have been lost tohistory, but their dedication to improving the conditions in whichdomestic workers labor fertilized the ground for this generation’sinitiatives.

By the time more than 50 women representing 13 domestic workerorganizations* from 5 states convened in Atlanta, they were alreadyan integral part of a rich context and history of organizing for therights of low-wage and excluded workers, of women, of immigrants,and of people of color.

*Founding member organizations include CASA de Maryland, Casa Latina,Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Damayan MigrantWorkers Association, Domestic Workers United, Haitian Women for HaitianRefugees, La Colectiva de Mujeres, Las Señoras de Santa Maria, MujeresUnidas y Activas, People Organized to Win Employment Rights, PilipinoWorkers’ Center, Unity Housecleaners Cooperative of the Hempstead Work-place Project, and Women Workers’ Project of CAAAV: Organizing AsianCommunities

These founding sisters, including workers from Bangladesh, thePhilippines, Barbados, Haiti, Mexico and El Salvador, shared organi-zational models, explored the history of domestic worker organizingin the U.S., and reflected on the victories and challenges of their policycampaigns. They also sang, shared stories, danced, marched, laughedand provided inspiration to countless others attending the U.S. SocialForum.

The domestic worker organizations present at the Social Forumembodied years of experimentation with organizational models andmissions. Many provided services, including skills training, to theirmembers. Some were worker collectives; others provided “know-your-rights” workshops. Some paid close attention to the relationshipbetween personal transformation and healing, leadership developmentand political action. Several had already taken the lead on citywideor statewide policy campaigns. Some organizations were embeddedin immigrant rights organizations or workers centers; others wereindependent. In both California and New York domestic workers hadalready created statewide coalitions to advance their bill of rightscampaigns. NDWA inherited this great wealth of grounded experience.And despite the diversities of nationalities and languages and orga-nizational approaches, strong themes emerged.

Each of the organizations was committed to building the collectivepower of domestic workers. Each was invested in developing theirmembers as leaders. All understood domestic worker organizing asa constituent part of a 21st century social movement to broaden U.S.democracy by winning rights and securing justice. And all wereimmersed in the global dimensions of both the challenges they facedand solutions they would need to pursue.

Most important, there was general agreement about the issues centralto the bad pay and radically substandard conditions that so manydomestic workers face. Domestic workers are excluded from theprotections of many federal and state employment laws and regulations—exclusions still haunted by their racially biased heritage. The caringand cleaning work that domestic workers do—traditionally understoodto be “women’s work”—is profoundly devalued in our society. Domesticworkers are isolated in private homes, vulnerable to abuse and exploita-tion by unethical employers. And domestic workers are part of a largeand rapidly expanding sector of the labor force for which the notionof a stable job with wages and benefits su!cient to support a familyhas become illusory. For this sector, work is most often part-time,temporary, poorly paid, without benefits and without prospects foradvancement. Language barriers and irregular documentation statusfurther compound these dynamics for many domestic workers.

MAY 2011

NDWA signs a partnershipagreement with the AFL-CIO.

JUNE 16, 2011

ILO Decent Work for DomesticWorkers Convention passes.

JULY 2011

Caring Across Generations, aninitiative to bring care workerstogether with the millions ofAmericans who will need careas the nation ages, to createquality care jobs and expandaccess to home-based care,launched in Washington DCwith a 700-person Congress.

AUGUST 2011

Be The Help Campaign launchedto bring visibility to the storiesof today’s domestic workers withthe acclaim of the film, “The Help.”The campaign culminated duringthe film awards season withOscar viewing parties heldthroughout the country.

DECEMBER 2011

President Obama announces newproposed regulatory change atthe Department of Labor toextend minimum wage andovertime protections to morethan 1.8 million home careworkers.

Pride, dignity, respect, recognition. There is not an ounce of shame indoing the unseen but crucial work that literally makes all other workpossible. Domestic workers devote their time and attention to themost essential needs of their employers’ families, while also providingfor their own. If children and elders are not cared for, adults cannotengage in the jobs and professions that produce social wealth andmake the world turn. If no one shopped, cooked and cleaned, dirt anddisorder would soon overwhelm our best e"orts to contribute to thehealth and welfare of our communities. Whether it is family membersor paid employees who perform this work of caring and cleaning, itsvalue is beyond dispute.

Yet, central though its role may be, “women’s work” is taken forgranted, like an old piece of furniture, and immigrant labor is bothrelied upon and reviled. And so domestic workers stand at the nexusof corrosive cultural and economic forces that undermine their abilityto secure an adequate livelihood for themselves and their families.Their very vulnerability had been a spur to domestic worker projectsacross the country.

Through persistent on-the-ground organizing, the women in Atlantahad already proven that there’s no such thing as “unorganizable”people, communities or sectors of the workforce. On the final day ofthe U.S. Social Forum, July 1, 2007, they decided to create a newnational alliance that could nurture their determination to supporteach other, and so the National Domestic Workers Alliance was born.There and then NDWA articulated that its main goals were to:

• Collectively bring public attention to the plight of domestic/household workers;

• Bring respect and recognition to the workforce;• Improve workplace conditions; and• Strengthen the voice and power of domestic workers as a

workforce.

Worthy goals each and every one. But there was another, unstatedgoal, that came out of Atlanta—to Lead With Love.

In the face of great odds there’s a great temptation to contract andhunker down. But domestic worker organizing could not have comeas far as it has in these brief five years without being open-heartedand optimistic, without striving for and manifesting interdependence,without taking great risks in the service of a great cause, without,that is, Leading With Love.

APRIL 2012

NDWA Director, Ai-jen Poo isnamed to TIME Magazine’s listof 100 Most Influential People inthe World.

MAY 2012

NDWA’s membership grows to 35a!liates in 12 states and NDWAholds our largest-ever NationalCongress with over 400 domesticworkers in Washington DC.

SEPTEMBER 2012

Following passage in bothhouses of CA legislature,Governor Jerry Brown vetoesCA Domestic Worker’s Bill ofRights, CA Coalition regroupsto re-launch e"orts, whileMA and IL domestic workerscoalitions plan to launch similarstate campaigns in 2013.

OCTOBER 2012

Four a!liate members formNDWA Anti-trafficking Com-mittee, launching a leadershipprogram for domestic workersurvivors of tra!cking.

NOVEMBER 2012

Release of Home Economics,the first national report on theconditions of the domesticwork industry in the UnitedStates.

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LEADINGwith Love

SPECIAL THANKSNDWA extends our thanks to the following

without whom this celebration would not have been possible

Our dedicated event co-chairsSimon GreerMaya Harris

Benjamin JealousManuel PastorCecile Richards

Richard L. TrumkaLuz Vega-Marquis

All of our sponsors and the members our host committeefor your early and strong support

Our gracious award presenters and masters of ceremoniesSimon GreerSarita GuptaMaya Harris

Arlene Holt-BakerJerret JohnsonMarcia Olivo

Our talented artistsMichele Asselin

Mike McCoy, LaRissa Ferrell and Voices UnitedSalvador Saramiento and Taller Cosita Seria

Our nimble production crewPhoebe Eng and Cli! Parker, film creation

Omar Garcia, Jay Hobsen and Greg Walsh, videographyRick Flanagan, composer

Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad y RebeldeCarolina Kroon, photographyAlexandra Dubow, design

Lili Schwartz, designHal Kowenski and the team at Linemark, printing

Lisa Moore and Maria Poblet, interpretation

All of this evening’s volunteersand Paul Booth, Matt Mayers and the team at AFSCME

Caring Across GenerationsThis is a unique moment for America. Ourcountry is aging—Baby Boomers are rapidlyturning over 65 while also confronting the needto care for both their children and their elderlyparents. And yet we have no system set up tosupport the care that is needed for this growingsegment of our population. At the same time,we face record unemployment numbers andstagnant economic growth.

The National Domestic Workers Allianceand Jobs with Justice initiated Caring AcrossGenerations (CAG) recognizing that thismoment, while posing a particular challenge, presents a powerful opportunity—the possibility of creatingmillions of quality jobs in a sector experiencing growing demand for home and community-based care.Furthermore, we can use this moment to reframe the national conversation around the way that we carefor each other and to bridge the intergenerational relationship gap. Such a reframing will be crucial incountering the increasingly polarized debate on social programs in this country.

Since the launch of the campaign in July 2011, more than 200 unions and organizations have joinedthe effort. Together, we have:

• Held 7 Care Congresses, local Town Hall meetings, where thousands of caregivers, home careworkers, seniors, and people with disabilities around the country shared their stories, needs,and hopes for the future of care.

• Introduced Sense of the Senate and Sense of the House Resolutions, laying the groundworkfor federal legislation to create millions of quality care jobs.

• Supported the establishment of local Care Councils, like in Seattle where the local Care Councilwon a city resolution in support of the campaign.

• Engaged over 500,000 senior voters during the 2012 election cycle in 5 states, about Medicareand Social Security.

To read more about Caring Across Generations and join the movement,visit www.caringacrossgenerations.org and follow us on Twitter @CaringAcrossGen

Congratulations to the

National Domestic Workers Alliance

for five years of groundbreaking workin solidarity with domestic workers

in the US and around the world.We send our deepest thanks.

The Board, Staff & Members ofDomestic Workers United

The Brazilian Immigrant Center, Inc.

congratulates the NDWA

for its five years of leading

Domestic Workers on the pathway to

respect, dignity and fair labor standards!

Long live the National Alliance for its fifth aniversary.

For its incredible work, e!ort and dedication to the transformationof each organization and worker that it touches.

The Alliance is like rays of sunlight thatilluminate and transform the heart.

Working to organize so that domestic work be recognizedas dignified and respected work and that it be as

mportant as all other work.

Que viva que viva la Alianza Nacional por su quinto aniversario.

Por su increíble trabajo, esfuerzo y dedicación en transformar a cadaorganización y cada trabajadora que toca.

La Alianza es como los rayos del sol queiluminan y transforman el corazón.

Trabajando organizando para que el trabajo del hogar seareconocido como un trabajo digno y respetado y que

sea tan importante como cualquier otro trabajo.

La familia Reyes,

Jose, Maria, Emmanuel, Noe, Claudia y Aldo

Con mucho amor felicitan a NDWA

en su 5o. Aniversario

deseamos el mayor de los exitos

ahora, manana y siempre.

Reyes Jumpers, e Impresion de camisetas.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance is an inspiration

for all people working for justice and equality in this country.

We are honored and proud to work side by side with

powerful domestic workers who are taking destiny into

their own hands and speaking truth to power. The Caring

Across Generations campaign depends on the strength and

leadership of domestic workers to help guide us to victory,

and dignity and respect for all. Congratulations on your

5th anniversary, and thank you for leading with love.

Caring Across Generations

Your commitment and passion inspires me every day.

Felicidades a nuestras luchadoras deMujeres Unidas y Activas!

Andrea Lee

Bend the Arc: a Jewish Partnership for Justice is delighted to celebrate theNational Domestic Workers Alliance on this momentous occasion. NDWAhas helped to ensure that domestic workers – who do the work that makesall other work possible – have the dignity and honor they deserve. May ourshared Caring Across Generations campaign yield many victories for theworkers who provide care and for those they support.

Domestic Workers of the World Unite!

We congratulate our sisters of the NDWA on 5 yearsof inspirational work in support of millions of

domestic workers across the USA.

We celebrate your victories and invite domestic workersfrom around the world to join us at the IDWN Founding Congress

in Uruguay in October, 2013.

Visit the website of the International Domestic Workers Networkfor more details: www.IDWN.info.

Congratulations on five inspiring years building the voice andpower of those whose work makes all other work possible!

Thank you for leading with love.

We are proud to stand with you.

The mission of generative somatics is to grow a transformative social and environmental justice movementthat integrates personal and social transformation, creates compelling alternatives to the status quo and

embodies the creativity, life-a"rming actions and rigor we need to accomplish systemic change.

JFREJ honors five years

of inspiring work by

our partners at the

National Domestic

Workers Alliance.

May you continue to

lead with love!

Congratulations to theNational Domestic Workers Alliance and CASALatina

We would like to share our deep gratitude and admiration for your leadership,commitment and solidarity for domestic workers and all of our communities.

Looking forward to the next five years—

The Washington Care CouncilCASALatina, Washington Community Action Network, SEIU 775 NW, Puget Sound Advocate for Retirement Action,

and 27 member organizations

Congratulationson five incredible years

to the National Domestic

Workers Alliance from the

Working Families Party.

Uniting Food, Farm,Hotel and Domestic Workers

Worldwide

In appreciation of theNational Domestic Workers’ Alliance 5 years of

dedicated support for the rights of domestic workers

Building global solidarity

International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant,Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations

Rampe du Pont-Rouge, 8, CH-1213Petit-Lancy (Switzerland)Phone: + 41 22 793 22 33Fax: + 41 22 793 22 38

General Secretary : Ron OswaldPresident : Hans-Olof Nilsson

www.iuf.org

Desde nuestro Principio/From our Beginnings

Hacia nuestro Futuro/Into our Future

Mujeres Unidas y ActivasEstá orgullosa de ser lideras de la ANTH!

Mujeres Unidas y Activasis proud to be leaders of the NDWA!

Congratulationsto NDWA

and all the honorees!

Keep Leadingwith Love!

WE ARE THEMAKERS OF HISTORY

Congratulations & Mabuhay NDWA

With love,Filipino Advocates for Justice

310 – 8th St. #306Oakland, CA 94607

www.filipinos4justice.org

On behalf of Domestic Workers Union (Sri lanka) andRed Flag Women’s Movement I am happy to informyou that your actions helping domestic workers arefelt all over the world. You gave the visibility to theworkers and you proved to the world that domesticworkers are workers. By our heart we congratulateNDWA for the celebration of your 5th anniversary.

Menaha Kandasamy, Domestic Workers Union(Sri lanka) and Red Flag Women’s Movement

This is really milestone of the growthof the domestic worker’s movement,not only in North America, but worldwide.

Elizabeth TangIDWN Coordinator

Congratulations NDWA!

For five years you have led on the rights ofdomestic workers and brought people together

across all differences with love.

Qué viva NDWA!

ARC CongratulatesNational Domestic Workers Alliance

on its 5th Anniversary!

What a great day it is — a victorious day,a day to reflect on what you have achieved in5 years. Yes, you keep the flame burning forthe most vulnerable workers. Yes domesticwork is decent work — we are workers also.

We in SADSAWU salute you. Solidarity forever.

Myrtle WitbooiSouth African Domestic Workers Union

Congratulaciones para la NDWA en su5 aniversario y todos las honoradas

Congratulations to NDWA on your5th Anniversary and to all the honorees

bUnity Housecleaners & The Workplace Project

Long Island, NY

Greenpeace congratulatestonight’s honorees

and supports the important workof the NDWA

IDEPSCA congratulates the

National Domestic Workers Alliance

for 5 years of advancing

the fight for the rights of

domestic workers from

our Women In Action

group thank you.

Reciban un fraterno saludo de ATRAHDOM y delSITRADOMSA (el sindicato de trabajadoras del hogarde Guatemala). Para nosotras en Guatemala es muyimportante saber que no estamos solas y que hay masmujeres y organizaciones a fuera luchando igual quenosotras. Las felicitamos, son pioneras en la lucha.

Maritza Velásquez EstradaATRAHDOM y SITRADOMSA, Guatemala

On behalf of all the domestic workers and other membersof the SEWA Union, I acknowledge the great work thatthe National Domestic Workers’ Alliance has done andthe success achieved. We congratulate the Alliance fornot only being able to sustain itself but for also drawingthe attention of the authorities and the public therebygiving visibility to a sector that is so indispensable andyet not acknowledged.

Nalini Nayak, Self Employed Women’s Association—India

Please receive our fraternal greeting from ATRAHDOMand SITRADOMSA (the domestic workers union inGuatemala). For us in Guatemala it’s so important toknow that we are not alone and that there are morewomen and organizations fighting just like us.We congratulate you, you are pioneers in this fight.

Maritza Velásquez EstradaATRAHDOM and SITRADOMSA, Guatemala

Congratulationson the important advances you have made

and the many victories that lie ahead!

We are so proud to be members of NDWAand constantly inspired for the Alliance’s bold

visionary leadership!Somos muy orgullos@s de ser miembros de laAlianza y constantamente inspirad@s por su

liderazgo tan fuerte y visionario!

FNM hails the

fantastic work of

NDWA, we’re

looking forward to

helping it spread

throughout the

Sunshine State.

Ai-jen PooDirector

Linda BurnhamNational Research Director

Tara Shuai EllisonFinance & Operations Director

Felicia MartinezAssistant to the Director

Andrea Cristina MercadoNational Campaign Director

Lisa MooreGender & ImmigrationCampaign Organizer

Yashna Maya PadamseeAdministrative Coordinator

Perla PlacenciaLead Organizer

Maria ReyesNational Organizer

Jill ShenkerField Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

STAFFYomara Velez

State Strategies Organizer

Mariana ViturroDeputy Director

Barbara YoungNational Organizer

Atlanta Chapter Sta!

Tamieka AtkinsAtlanta Chapter Director

Jerret JohnsonAtlanta Organizer

Leading with Love Sta!

Sophia GiddensEvent Assistant

Cynthia GreenbergExternal Relations & Partnerships

Jonathan KissamCommunications

Bekah MandellCommunications

Ai-jen PooNDWA

Rose AloveraDAMAYAN

Gilda BlancoCasa Latina

Maria Guadalupe DistanciaMujeres Unidas y Activas

Juana FloresMujeres Unidas y Activas

Araceli HernandezCasa Latina

Ilyse Hogue

Genaro Lopez-RendonSouthwest Workers Union

Idelisse Malavé

Luci MorrisBrazilian Immigrant Center

Linda OalicanDAMAYAN

Antonia PeñaCasa de Maryland

Alicia Pérez SánchezSouthwest Workers Union

Herminia ServatCasa de Maryland

Alta Starr

Tracy SturdivantState Voices

Natalicia TracyBrazilian Immigrant Center

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