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Celebrating 5 Years of the
National Domestic Workers Alliance
NOVEMBER 14, 2012
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
WASHINGTON, DC

2. NDWA MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
NDWA was founded in 2007 by 13 organizations from 5 states. As of November 2012, we now have 39
member organizations and one local chapter in 24 cities in 14 states and the District of Columbia.
ALABAMA COLORADO DAMAYAN Migrant Workers
Association
Somos Tuscaloosa Centro Humanitario
New York
Tuscaloosa Denver
www.damayanmigrants.org
www.facebook.com/somos- www.centrohumanitario.org
tuscaloosa FLORIDA
Domestic Workers United
New York
ARIZONA Ola de Mujeres, Miami Workers www.domesticworkersunited.org
Centro Laboral de Mujeres por un Center
Haitian Women for Haitian
Mundo Mejor Miami
Refugees
Tuscon www.miamiworkerscenter.org
Brooklyn
CALIFORNIA GEORGIA haitianwomen.wordpress.com
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Atlanta NDWA Chapter* Hispanic Resource Center
Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) Atlanta Workers Center
Los Angeles ILLINOIS Mamaroneck
www.chirla.org www.hispanicresourcecenter.org
ARISE Chicago
Filipino Advocates for Justice Chicago Las Mujeres de Santa Maria
Oakland www.arisechicago.org Staten Island
www.filipinos4action.org
Latino Union of Chicago New Immigrant Community
Filipino Community Center Chicago Empowerment
San Francisco www.latinounion.org Jackson Heights
filipinocc.org www.nynice.org
La Colectiva de Mujeres Tejiendo
Filipino Migrant Center Sueños y Luchando Unity Housecleaners Cooperative
Long Beach Chicago Hempstead
fmcsc09.wordpress.com www.workplaceprojectny.org
MASSACHUSETTS
Graton Day Labor Center NEW MEXICO
Graton Brazilian Immigrant Center
Allston Encuentro
www.gratondaylabor.org
www.braziliancenter.org Albuquerque
IDEPSCA www.encuentronm.org
Los Angeles Brazilian Women’s Group
Allston TEXAS
www.idepsca.org
verdeamarelo.org/ Fe y Justicia Worker Center
La Colectiva de Mujeres
Dominican Development Center Houston
San Francisco
Boston www.houstonworkers.org
www.lacolectivasf.org
dominicancenter.net Southwest Workers Union
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Matahari: Eye of the Day San Antonio
Bay Area
Boston www.swunion.org
www.mujeresunidas.net
eyeoftheday.org/wp/ VIRGINIA
People Organized to Win
Employment Rights (POWER) MARYLAND Tenants and Workers United
San Francisco CASA de Maryland www.tenantsandworkers.org
www.peopleorganized.org www.casademaryland.org WASHINGTON
Pilipino Workers’ Center of NEW YORK Casa Latina
Southern California Seattle
Los Angeles Adhikaar
Woodside www.casa-latina.org
www.pwcsc.org
www.adhikaar.org WASHINGTON DC
San Diego Day Laborers and
Household Workers Association Cidadao Global Break the Chain Campaign
San Diego Long Island City www.ips-dc.org/BTCC
www.myajsd.org www.cidadaoglobal.org
*Launched in 2012, the Atlanta Chapter is the first NDWA chapter. All other groups listed are independent
organizations that are affiliate members NDWA.

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PROGRAM
Welcome
Simon Greer and Sarita Gupta
Masters of Ceremonies
Leading with Love Awards
INSPIRATION
Guillermina Castellanos
DEDICATION
Linda Oalican
Presented by
Arlene Holt-Baker
Voice of Love Award
Viola Davis
Presented by
Marcia Olivo
Lifetime of Leadership Award
Cicely Tyson
Presented by
Jerret Johnson
Leading with Love Awards
COMMITMENT
Casa Latina
VISION
Domestic Workers United
LOVE
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Presented by
Maya Harris
Remarks
Ilyse Hogue and Tracy Sturdivant, NDWA Board of Directors
Ai-jen Poo, NDWA Director
Musical Performances
Mike McCoy and Voices United
Taller Cosita Seria
Artist-in-Residence
Michele Asselin
Celebrating 5 Years of the National Domestic Workers Alliance

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HONORARY CO-HOSTS
Simon Greer Cecile Richards
Maya Harris Richard L. Trumka
Benjamin Jealous Luz Vega-Marquis
Manuel Pastor
SPONSORS
1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East Jobs with Justice
1199 SEIU—Pennsylvania Gara LaMarche
32BJ SEIU Dr. Kathleen Maloy
Advancement Project MomsRising
AFL-CIO MoveOn
AFSCME NAACP
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation National Council of La Raza
Bend the Arc: National Education Association
A Jewish Partnership for Justice
PICO
Jules Bernstein
The Praxis Project
Caring Across Generations
Phil Radford & Eileen Simpson
The Marguerite Casey Foundation
SEIU Healthcare 775 NW
Center for Community Change
SEIU ULTCW
The Center for Social Inclusion
Solidago Foundation
CWA
Alexander Soros
Family Values at Work Consortium
UNITE HERE
Ford Foundation
V-Day
generative somatics
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Hand in Hand:
The Domestic Employers Association WIEGO—Women in Informal Employment:
Globalizing and Organizing
IUF—International Union of Food,
Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Working Families Party
Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations

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WELCOME
PHOTO: ASHOK PANT
When I first started organizing domestic workers in New York in
1998, it was a challenge to bring a handful of women together in
the church basement where we gathered. In the shadows of urban
centers like New York, domestic work was defined by invisibility,
isolation and vulnerability. It was difficult to reach workers, and
even more difficult to move past the fear many women felt about coming to a meeting. Despite
the undeniably vital role that domestic workers play in our lives, caring for our families and
homes, they are excluded from basic labor rights and face some of the worst workplace abuses
imaginable. 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 states
and 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 the
capacity to lead, inspire and change the world around them.
In Oakland, we support one another in story circles, while in New York, we passed statewide
legislation 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 economy
for all of us. In large and small ways, domestic workers are leading the way. It’s powerful, and it’s
deeply 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 the
great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted
as opposites—polar opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power
with a denial of love. . . . What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and
abusive, 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 stands
against love.”
In the spirit of Dr. King, and the boundless love with which domestic workers care for our families
and the future of the country, we celebrate five powerful years. We’re so grateful to share in
the moment and the movement with you. Thank you.
Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

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HOST COMMITTEE
9to5 Margaret Huang New York Women’s Foundation
Katherine Acey Rights Working Group Ali Noorani
Christine Ahn Institute for Policy Studies Ana Oliveira
Global Fund for Women Institute for Women’s Jeremy Osborn
Akonadi Foundation Policy Research
Chris Owens
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Interfaith Worker Justice National Employment Law Project
(CA-13) International Domestic Purva Panday Cullman
Deepak Bhargava Workers Network
Gail Pendelton
Kim Bobo Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.* ASISTA Immigration Assistance
Interfaith Worker Justice (IL-02)
PHI–Quality Care through Quality
May Boeve Van Jones Jobs
Breakthrough TV Si Kahn Congresswoman Chellie Pingree*
Jennifer Buffet Helen Kim (ME-01)
Peter Buffet Roger Kim Miles Rappoport
Asian Pacific Environmental Congressman Cedric L. Richmond*
Doyle Canning Network
SmartMeme (LA-2)
Deborah King Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Arturo Carmona 1199 SEIU Training and
Presente Employment Funds Congresswoman
Jerri Chou Lucille Roybal-Allard* (CA-34)
Vivien Labaton
Congressman Hansen Clarke* Justin Ruben
Rachel LaForest
(MI-13) Right to the City Alliance Matt Ryan
Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay* ALIGN
Congresswoman Barbara Lee*
(MO-1) (CA-9) Rinku Sen
Congressman Elijah Cummings* Applied Research Center
Eric Liu
(MD-7) Eveline Shen
Idelisse Malavé Forward Together
Demos
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney* Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter*
Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards* (NY-14)
(MD-04) (NY-28)
Katherine McFate Marilyn Sneiderman &
Eve Ensler OMB Watch Stephen Lerner
Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo Pam McMichael
(CA-14)* Congresswoman Jackie Speier*
Highlander Research and (CA-12)
Bridgit Antoinette Evans Education Center
Alta Starr
Kim Fellner Heather McGhee
Tracy Sturdivant
Feminist Majority Foundation Tara McGuiness
Center for American Progress Nik Theodore
Trevor & Meredith FitzGibbon
Bill McKibben Congressman Edolphus Towns*
Elspeth Gilmore (NY-10)
George Goehl Nancy Meyer & Marc Weiss
UNITY
Sara Gould Pat Mitchell
Alan van Capelle
Ken Grossinger & Micheline Klagsbrun Janet Murguía
Vermont Workers Center
Pronita Gupta National Asian Pacific American
Women’s Forum Working America
Sarita Gupta Women Donors Network
National Network for Immigrant
Donna P. Hall Miriam Yeung
and Refugee Rights
Ilyse Hogue
Luke Newton * Honorary Host Committee Member

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GUILLERMINA CASTELLANOS
Leading 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 after
immigrating to the U.S. in 1985. Her mother was also a domestic worker, working as a house
cleaner, and her father was a gardener and farmer.
In 2000, together with Renee Saucedo, she co-founded La Colectiva de Mujeres (Women’s
Collective) in San Francisco. As an organizer with La Colectiva, Guillermina has developed the
leadership of hundreds of women, helping them organize for respect and dignity and always
with 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 Organizing
Network. 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 been
essential 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 OALICAN
Leading with Love Award Dedication
Linda Oalican is the Co-Founder and the Overall Coordinator of DAMAYAN Migrant Workers
Association. Originally from the Philippines, she grew up in a family of peasants. Government
scholarships enabled her to study at the University of the Philippines. As a student of Political
Science in the 1970’s, she planned to complete her studies in just three years to help her
struggling 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 lead
the movement for economic, political and social change in the country.
In the next decade, she worked for the Philippine government where she became a union
organizer. However, her salary was not enough to send her two children to college, and so in
1994, like many other women around the world, she migrated to the U.S. In the U.S., she first
worked as a domestic worker and personally experienced abuse, discrimination and isolation.
Drawing upon her organizing background, in 2002 Linda co-founded DAMAYAN with fellow
Filipina 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-income
communities. With a deep commitment to the leadership of domestic workers, she has supported
hundreds of Filipina domestic workers, including dozens of trafficking survivors in their devel-
opment as advocates. Linda continues to be a strong leader in the movement for domestic
and all migrant workers’ rights, dignity and justice.

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VIOLA DAVIS
Voice of Love Award
Uplifting the Voices of Domestic Workers in Popular Culture
PHOTO: ART STREIBER/AUGUST
Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television and theater who has won rave reviews
for her diverse roles and performances. Her 2011 portrayal of domestic worker Aibileen Clark in the
Oscar-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 domestic
workers and a white domestic employer who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing
project chronicling the experience of domestic workers, putting them all at risk. Davis earned a
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Leading Role and a
Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress for her performance, and was also nominated for the
Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and British Academy Film Award. The film won a Screen
Actors 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 winning
play. Davis was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance; The National Board of Review
recognized Davis with the Breakthrough Award and she was also honored by the Santa Barbara
Film Festival as a Virtuoso. Davis’ film and theater credits are innumerable. Other film roles
include “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” “Knight and Day,” “Eat, Pray, Love,” “It’s Kind of a
Funny 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 from
Heaven,” “Solaris,” “Traffic” and “Out of Sight.”
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On the stage, Davis has received the theater’s highest honors on and off-Broadway, including a
Tony Award, Drama Critics’ Circle Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for
her role in August Wilson’s Broadway revival of “Fences;” the production was also honored with
the Tony Award for Best Play Revival. Her role in Lynn Nottage’s play “Intimate Apparel” garnered
her the Drama Desk, the Drama League, the Obie and the Audelco Award for Best Actress, and
she was nominated for the prestigious Lucille Lortel Award as well. Her reprisal of the role in Los
Angeles brought her the Ovation, Los Angeles Drama Critics and the Garland Awards. She also
earned a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk
Award 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 a
Fairytale: 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 roles
in 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 production
company committed to excellence in film, television and theatre. As one of their projects, they
have 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 the
American West.
Davis, the daughter of a domestic worker, is a graduate of The Julliard School and holds an
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Degree from her alma mater, Rhode Island College. She resides
in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

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CICELY TYSON
Lifetime of Leadership Award
Actress, activist and humanitarian, Cicely Tyson is renowned for her portrayals of strong female
characters on stage, screen and television, including boundary-breaking roles for women of color.
From her first appearances, her critically acclaimed performances are innumerable. Among them
are her landmark, Emmy award-winning role of the title character in “The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman,” which garnered her Best Actress and Actress of the Year; her performance in “The
Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All;” her starring role in “Sweet Justice;” her Oscar nominated
performance for Best Actress in “Sounder;” stunning early stage appearances in “Dark Of The
Moon” and Jean Genet’s “The Blacks,” for which she received the prestigious Vernon Rice Award;
and her touching portrayal in 2010 of Constantine Jefferson in “The Help,” which was awarded
among others, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a
Motion 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 Brown
Girl, Brownstones. Shortly thereafter she became both the first woman of color to co-star in a
television drama series, “East Side, West Side,” and a series regular on a daytime television
soap opera, “The Guiding Light.” Other prominent performances include: Harriet Tubman in the
televised special “A Woman Called Moses;” Tante Lou in “A Lesson Before Dying;” Binta, the
mother of Kunte Kinte in “Roots;” Marva Collins in “Welcome To Success: The Marva Collins
Story;” and Coretta Scott King in “King,” all of which earned her Emmy nominations. Memorable
film credits also include “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,” “A Man Called Adam,” “Diary Of A Mad
Black 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 travelled
extensively throughout Africa on behalf of women and children in need; and lead a fundraising
and school-rebuilding effort in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami.
Her presence has been equally powerful in the United States. She delivered a key address at the
1984 Democratic National Convention; served as Mistress of Ceremonies for President Clinton’s
2001 “Welcome to Harlem,” and as Emcee for the Democratic National Committee’s “A Night at
the Apollo” fundraiser for voter registration; has performed at the White House; and, as member
of the Presidential Commission on the Development of the National Museum of African American
History and Culture, has been said to be a driving force in the development of the museum
which will open in 2015.
Among her many accolades, Ms. Tyson finds the most meaning in her role as matriarch of the
Cicely 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 on
academic 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 in
every area of their education.
Cicely Tyson has been widely recognized for her talent, dedication and leadership. Prior honors
include an unprecedented number of Image Awards from the NAACP and the organization’s
highest accolade, the prestigious Spingarn Award and honors from the National Council of
Negro 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. She
has received the Women in Film Crystal Award, for the impact her work has had expanding the
role 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, The
Smithsonian 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 York
Times, Ebony Magazine and Time Magazine, and has spoken at over 500 colleges and universities
throughout the world on human rights, education and race relations. She holds numerous
honorary doctorates and her star graces the iconic Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

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CASA LATINA
Leading with Love Award Commitment
Casa Latina (CL) is a workers center in Seattle that organizes Latino immigrant domestic
workers and day laborers so that they can raise the value of their work and improve their
working conditions. CL is a founding member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and
currently sits on the NDWA Board of Directors.
Immigrant housekeepers who are members of CL formed Mujeres Sin Fronteras/Women Without
Borders in 2011. Since then, Mujeres Sin Fronteras has trained hundreds of women workers in
health and safety, doubling its membership in the past year.
With support from NDWA, CL established a local steering committee for the groundbreaking
Caring Across Generations campaign, including SEIU 775 NW, the Washington Community
Action Network and Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action. Casa Latina helped to
coordinate and host the Seattle Care Congress in February 2012, which brought together over
200 care workers, care recipients and their families to share stories and develop a shared
vision for dignity and respect.
The success of this work resulted in a victory just months later when the Seattle City Council
passed a unanimous resolution for solutions to the care crisis that support both the people
who need care and the workers providing care.

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DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED
Leading with Love Award Vision
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 labor
standards, 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 Filipina
domestic workers organization) in collaboration with Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers.
DWU is a founding member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and in 2010 DWU
represented NDWA as a founding member of the International Domestic Workers Network. DWU
has won more than $500,000 in unpaid wages for exploited domestic workers and graduated
hundreds of domestic workers from their Nanny Training Program at Cornell University ILR
Program and more than 50 domestic workers from their Leadership Training Program.
After a six and half-year organizing effort, building a membership of more than 4,000 domestic
workers and a broad coalition including employers, unions, clergy and community groups, DWU
successfully won the passage of the nation’s first state legislation extending basic rights to
domestic workers. The New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights was signed into law on August
31, 2010. This historic victory has helped pave the way for similar efforts in other states. DWU
is now leading the implementation of the NY law through outreach, education and building
neighborhood-based partnerships while providing critical support to Bill of Rights campaigns
in states around the country.
DWU is the largest domestic workers organization in the country, and serves as a model for
organizations and unions around the world. As a member-led organization, DWU welcomes all
domestic workers committed to winning respect and fair labor standards, and building a
powerful movement for social change.

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MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS
Leading with Love Award Love
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 economic
justice. MUA is a leader of the growing domestic worker rights movement.
MUA creates an environment of understanding and confidentiality, empowering and educating
their members as peer counselors, outreach and education workers and community organizers;
offering trainings to build economic security and leadership; working in diverse alliances; and
organizing campaigns to win immigrant, workers’ and women’s rights. From the streets to the
state house, MUA members have organized to ensure that their voices are heard and respected.
MUA ensures that the women directly affected by discriminatory immigration policies are leading
voices for immigrant rights while working to ensure that immigrant women are able to access
basic 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 to
end 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 California
Domestic Worker Coalition, which is leading the fight to pass a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights
in 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, which
resulted 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 currently
serves on NDWA’s Board of Directors. MUA’s Co-Director Juana Flores was an official delegate to
the historic 2011 International Labor Organization Conference, which passed the first Convention
on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. As a leader in the field, MUA has offered technical
assistance to over 50 emerging immigrant women’s and domestic worker groups across the
country.

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MASTERS OF CEREMONIES
SIMON GREER
Simon Greer became President and CEO of the Nathan Cummings
Foundation in January 2012 after a seven-year tenure at the
Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice (PJA
and JFSJ; now Bend the Arc). During his time there, Simon led the
organization through a period of institutional growth, including
developing the largest domestic Jewish service learning program
in 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 help
revive the Gulf Coast after Katrina. In 2011, Simon was named to the Forward 50, an annual list
of the country’s most influential Jews. Simon has worked as a labor and community organizer
and social change leader for 20 years. He founded Jews United for Justice, an urban social
change group in Washington DC, and served as the executive director for New York Jobs with
Justice.
SARITA GUPTA
Sarita Gupta is the Executive Director of Jobs with Justice (JwJ)
and American Rights at Work (ARW). In over 45 communities in
25 states, JwJ local coalitions are building a strong, progressive
labor movement working in partnership with community, faith and
student organizations. American Rights at Work is an independent
labor policy and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing
the right to organize and collectively bargain. This Fall, JwJ and
ARW are emerging as one organization united by a common mission to advance workers’ rights
and social and economic justice.
Sarita began organizing as a student on campus and was elected president of the U.S. Student
Association (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, the
National 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 with
NDWA’s director Ai-jen Poo, Sarita is Co-Director of Caring Across Generations.

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PRESENTERS
MAYA HARRIS
Maya Harris is Vice President of the Ford Foundation’s Democracy,
Rights and Justice program, where she leads its efforts to
strengthen the rule of law, increase civic participation, improve
government transparency and accountability, and protect human
rights for all people; she also oversees the foundation’s regional
programming in Latin America. Before joining the foundation,
Maya was Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
of Northern California, the largest ACLU affiliate in the U.S., where she oversaw the organization’s
litigation, 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, which
restored 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 at
PolicyLink and worked in civil litigation at the law firm of Jackson Tufts Cole and Black, LLP. She
was dean of Lincoln Law School of San Jose, and, as an adjunct law professor, taught gender
discrimination and contracts. She has also published commentary in numerous media outlets.
ARLENE HOLT-BAKER
Arlene Holt-Baker is in her second term as the Executive Vice
President of the AFL-CIO. She is the first African American to be
elected to one of the federation’s three highest offices and the
highest ranking African-American woman in the union movement.
Her experience as a union and grassroots organizer spans more
than 30 years. Arlene began her union work with AFSCME, as an
organizer, union representative and Area Director in California. She served on California’s
Comparable Worth Task Force Committee and as First Vice Chair of the California Democratic
Party. Arlene came to the AFL-CIO as Executive Assistant to Executive Vice President Linda
Chavez-Thompson in 1995. During her tenure, she has lead numerous campaign initiatives
including the 98 Paycheck Deception in California, the AFL-CIO Florida recount, the AFL-CIO
Voice@Work Campaign and the AFL-CIO Gulf Coast Recovery effort.
She has served as President of Voices for Working Families, a non-partisan voter participation
organization 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 labor
and community advocate.

18. LEADING
with Love
PRESENTERS
JERRET JOHNSON
Jerret Johnson currently lives in Atlanta, GA, where she is forming
a new chapter of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. In the
fall of 2011, Jerret led the survey collection in Atlanta as part of
NDWA’s national domestic worker survey project. Prior to this,
Jerret worked as a housecleaner, janitor and home health-aide for
10 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 addition
to being a member of the NDWA, Jerret is also a Board member of the Atlanta chapter of 9to5
Working Women’s Association. She is a single parent of daughter Cheyenne Johnson, a junior at
Hampton University majoring in Political Studies. Jerret that believes when you educate and
provide leadership development to people, it empowers them to play an active role in bringing
change to their communities.
MARCIA OLIVO
Marcia Olivo, originally from the Dominican Republic, is the Gender
Justice Coordinator at the Miami Workers Center. Upon moving
to the U.S. in 1989, Marcia worked as community organizer with
the Bronx-based Mothers on the Move and the North West Bronx
Community and Clergy Coalition. Upon relocating to Miami in
2000, 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 for
women and children survivors of domestic violence, Sisterhood of Survivors. The Sisterhood
merged 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, and
provides women leaders with a platform to share their experiences. Marcia resides in Miami
Shores with her husband and two sons.

19. LEADING
with Love
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: MICHELE ASSELIN
Michele Asselin began her photographic career in the Middle East,
covering current events for the Associated Press. Her images
were also featured in The New York Times, La Liberation and The
Daily Sun among others. After she returned to the U.S., she
began to focus on portraiture, and over the past ten years, Asselin’s
work has been featured in many global campaigns and leading
publications, including The New Yorker and The New York Times
Magazine. She has photographed many notable public figures,
from Hilary Clinton to Jeff Koons, and been recognized by
American Photography, Communication Arts and Photo District
News. In 2009, after having her first child, Asselin turned her
camera inward. Images from her inaugural project, “Full Time Preferred: Portraits of Love, Work
and 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 currently
lives in New York and Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
PERFORMERS: TALLER COSITA SERIA
Taller Cosita Seria is a Washington DC-based workshop that
brings people together to share in the traditions of community
song from southeastern Mexico. With their origins in the fandango
jarocho—a community celebration with indigenous, African and
Mestizo roots—these traditions center on Son Jarocho as a way
to bring people together, learn about our shared histories, and
confront the challenges of everyday life with strings in our hand
and a powerful poem in our hearts. Cosita Seria literally means
‘serious little thing,’ something seemingly simple and everyday, cotidiano, but reflecting a way
of life that they really are serious about, and believe in defending.
PERFORMERS: MIKE MCCOY AND VOICES UNITED
Voices United, a Washington DC-based ensemble, is comprised of
25 choir directors, pastors, preachers, praise and worship leaders,
musicians and evangelists from local churches. The ensemble was
founded by Mike McCoy, a musician and songwriter who has worked
with some of gospel’s musical giants, including the late Thomas
Whitfield, Shirley Caesar and Vanessa Williams. Organized in 1994,
Voices United’s style incorporates contemporary sound but
maintains traditional gospel flavor. They have sung with renowned
artists including Vickie Winans, Jonathan Nelson, and The Seven
Sons of Soul, and have been widely recognized, including being
named in 2010 the “Stellar Award Nominees for Contemporary
Choir of the Year.” For several years Voices United have worked with the Department of Social
Services to sponsor families during Thanksgiving and Christmas, and, in response to the crises in
Haiti, 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.

20. OUR STORY
THE HISTORY OF NDWA
MID 1990s
Local organizations began
organizing domestic workers
primarily in New York, Washington
DC, San Francisco and Los The Re-birth of a National
Domestic Workers Movement
Angeles to address specific
worker abuse and to pass poli-
cies to extend labor protections
to domestic workers.
JUNE–JULY 2007 The founding of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) in
Atlanta, GA in 2007 was both a culmination and a new beginning. It
NDWA is founded by 13 organi-
zations from 5 states at the first
was the culmination of a process, at first tentative and then increasingly
US Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. urgent, of sharing lessons and strategies among a far-flung group of
local domestic worker organizations. And it was the beginning of more
collaborative, more powerful, and more interdependent national
organizing for the rights and dignity of nannies, housecleaners and
elder 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 to
connect and to co-create a stronger foundation for domestic worker
organizing. They were energized by their common mission and by
the surprise and deep satisfaction of finding their counterparts and
SEPTEMBER 2008
forging a new sisterhood across geography, nationality and language.
International Domestic Workers They were also buoyed by the powerful currents of global and
Network is founded to push for national change that flowed just below the surface of domestic worker
a Decent Work for Domestic
Workers Convention at the organizing.
International Labor Organization.
NDWA serves on the Steering Domestic worker organizing gained momentum as women immigrants
Committee.
—part of the great late 20th century wave of workers pushed out of
OCTOBER 2009 their home countries by punishing international economic policies—
NDWA meets with the Depart- entered the very narrow range of occupations available to them.
ment of Labor to propose
regulatory reforms to strengthen Domestic workers demanded rights as new worker organizing, outside
labor rights enforcement for
domestic workers. of traditional union models, took off in the 1990s. Organizations with
strong roots in local communities, most especially in immigrant com-
SPRING 2010
munities, advocated for workers who were overlooked, or considered
First state anti-immigrant legis- impossible to organize, by the traditional labor movement. Day laborers,
lation introduced in AZ; NDWA
holds a Women’s Human Rights
agricultural workers, restaurant workers and garment workers found
Delegation on Mother’s Day in strength in collective action, and domestic workers learned from their
AZ and launches We Belong example.
Together campaign to lift up
the impact of immigration en-
forcement policies on women Domestic workers found their voice as the immigrant rights movement
and children. NDWA later sent took to the streets to challenge the raw hostility directed at the foreign-
similar delegations to GA, AL, TN born, particularly in the aftermath of 9/11.
and Tijuana Mexico in 2011–12.

21. Domestic worker organizing gained its footing as young organizers, JUNE 2010
schooled in gender studies, took the “intersectionality” of gender, NDWA holds Second National
race and class out of the universities and back into movements for Congress at the USSF in Detroit,
social justice, where it had originally been born. with 200 workers from more
than 20 organizations. Launched
the United Workers Congress
And it was fitting that NDWA was born in Atlanta, home to one of the (formerly the Excluded Worker’s
many direct foremothers of the current stage of domestic worker Congress) to bring together
workers excluded from basic
organizing. Dorothy Bolden led the Atlanta-based National Domestic
labor rights.
Workers Union of America in the 1960s and 70s. She understood the
fight for better working conditions as a matter of basic human rights AUGUST 2010
and she urged Atlanta’s domestic workers to put their hearts and NY Domestic Workers Bill of
souls into building their organization. “Stop putting your human Rights, the first of its kind in
U.S. history, signed into law.
rights 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 Atlanta
washerwomen’s strike of 1881, led by the Washing Society. Thousands
of 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 1930s
FALL 2010
and the 1960s–1970s. Domestic workers built the Domestic Workers
Association, Domestic Servants Union, Working Women of America, National Research Project
launches to complete the first
Association of Women Wage Earners, Household Technicians of national report on the domestic
America, and the National Committee on Household Employment, worker industry.
among other organizations, to break the isolation characteristic of
JANUARY 2011
cleaning and care-giving for wages in other people’s homes. No doubt
the names of many individuals and organizations have been lost to California Domestic Worker’s
Bill of Rights submitted to the
history, but their dedication to improving the conditions in which legislature.
domestic workers labor fertilized the ground for this generation’s
MAY 2011
initiatives.
NDWA launches SOL (Strategy,
Organizing, Leadership), a
By the time more than 50 women representing 13 domestic worker 2-year capacity building and
organizations* from 5 states convened in Atlanta, they were already leadership training program, in
an integral part of a rich context and history of organizing for the collaboration with Social Justice
Leadership and generative
rights of low-wage and excluded workers, of women, of immigrants,
somatics.
and of people of color.
*Founding member organizations include CASA de Maryland, Casa Latina,
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Damayan Migrant
Workers Association, Domestic Workers United, Haitian Women for Haitian
Refugees, La Colectiva de Mujeres, Las Señoras de Santa Maria, Mujeres
Unidas y Activas, People Organized to Win Employment Rights, Pilipino
Workers’ Center, Unity Housecleaners Cooperative of the Hempstead Work-
place Project, and Women Workers’ Project of CAAAV: Organizing Asian
Communities

22. MAY 2011 These founding sisters, including workers from Bangladesh, the
NDWA signs a partnership Philippines, Barbados, Haiti, Mexico and El Salvador, shared organi-
agreement with the AFL-CIO. zational models, explored the history of domestic worker organizing
JUNE 16, 2011 in the U.S., and reflected on the victories and challenges of their policy
campaigns. They also sang, shared stories, danced, marched, laughed
ILO Decent Work for Domestic
Workers Convention passes.
and provided inspiration to countless others attending the U.S. Social
Forum.
The domestic worker organizations present at the Social Forum
embodied years of experimentation with organizational models and
missions. Many provided services, including skills training, to their
members. Some were worker collectives; others provided “know-your-
rights” workshops. Some paid close attention to the relationship
between personal transformation and healing, leadership development
JULY 2011
and political action. Several had already taken the lead on citywide
or statewide policy campaigns. Some organizations were embedded
Caring Across Generations, an
in immigrant rights organizations or workers centers; others were
initiative to bring care workers
together with the millions of independent. In both California and New York domestic workers had
Americans who will need care already created statewide coalitions to advance their bill of rights
as the nation ages, to create campaigns. NDWA inherited this great wealth of grounded experience.
quality care jobs and expand
access to home-based care, And despite the diversities of nationalities and languages and orga-
launched in Washington DC nizational approaches, strong themes emerged.
with a 700-person Congress.
AUGUST 2011 Each of the organizations was committed to building the collective
power of domestic workers. Each was invested in developing their
Be The Help Campaign launched
to bring visibility to the stories members as leaders. All understood domestic worker organizing as
of today’s domestic workers with a constituent part of a 21st century social movement to broaden U.S.
the acclaim of the film, “The Help.” democracy by winning rights and securing justice. And all were
The campaign culminated during
the film awards season with immersed in the global dimensions of both the challenges they faced
Oscar viewing parties held and solutions they would need to pursue.
throughout the country.
DECEMBER 2011 Most important, there was general agreement about the issues central
President Obama announces new
to the bad pay and radically substandard conditions that so many
proposed regulatory change at domestic workers face. Domestic workers are excluded from the
the Department of Labor to protections of many federal and state employment laws and regulations
extend minimum wage and
—exclusions still haunted by their racially biased heritage. The caring
overtime protections to more
than 1.8 million home care and cleaning work that domestic workers do—traditionally understood
workers. to be “women’s work”—is profoundly devalued in our society. Domestic
workers are isolated in private homes, vulnerable to abuse and exploita-
tion by unethical employers. And domestic workers are part of a large
and rapidly expanding sector of the labor force for which the notion
of a stable job with wages and benefits sufficient to support a family
has become illusory. For this sector, work is most often part-time,
temporary, poorly paid, without benefits and without prospects for
advancement. Language barriers and irregular documentation status
further compound these dynamics for many domestic workers.

23. Pride, dignity, respect, recognition. There is not an ounce of shame in APRIL 2012
doing the unseen but crucial work that literally makes all other work NDWA Director, Ai-jen Poo is
possible. Domestic workers devote their time and attention to the named to TIME Magazine’s list
most essential needs of their employers’ families, while also providing of 100 Most Influential People in
the World.
for their own. If children and elders are not cared for, adults cannot
engage in the jobs and professions that produce social wealth and MAY 2012
make the world turn. If no one shopped, cooked and cleaned, dirt and NDWA’s membership grows to 35
disorder would soon overwhelm our best efforts to contribute to the affiliates in 12 states and NDWA
holds our largest-ever National
health and welfare of our communities. Whether it is family members
Congress with over 400 domestic
or paid employees who perform this work of caring and cleaning, its workers in Washington DC.
value is beyond dispute.
Yet, central though its role may be, “women’s work” is taken for
granted, like an old piece of furniture, and immigrant labor is both
relied upon and reviled. And so domestic workers stand at the nexus
of corrosive cultural and economic forces that undermine their ability
to secure an adequate livelihood for themselves and their families.
Their very vulnerability had been a spur to domestic worker projects
across the country. SEPTEMBER 2012
Following passage in both
Through persistent on-the-ground organizing, the women in Atlanta houses of CA legislature,
had already proven that there’s no such thing as “unorganizable” Governor Jerry Brown vetoes
people, communities or sectors of the workforce. On the final day of CA Domestic Worker’s Bill of
Rights, CA Coalition regroups
the U.S. Social Forum, July 1, 2007, they decided to create a new to re-launch efforts, while
national alliance that could nurture their determination to support MA and IL domestic workers
each other, and so the National Domestic Workers Alliance was born. coalitions plan to launch similar
state campaigns in 2013.
There and then NDWA articulated that its main goals were to:
• Collectively bring public attention to the plight of domestic/
PHOTO: DAVID BACON
household workers;
• Bring respect and recognition to the workforce;
• Improve workplace conditions; and
• Strengthen the voice and power of domestic workers as a
workforce.
OCTOBER 2012
Worthy goals each and every one. But there was another, unstated
goal, that came out of Atlanta—to Lead With Love. Four affiliate members form
NDWA Anti-trafficking Com-
mittee, launching a leadership
In the face of great odds there’s a great temptation to contract and program for domestic worker
hunker down. But domestic worker organizing could not have come survivors of trafficking.
as far as it has in these brief five years without being open-hearted NOVEMBER 2012
and optimistic, without striving for and manifesting interdependence,
Release of Home Economics,
without taking great risks in the service of a great cause, without,
the first national report on the
that is, Leading With Love. conditions of the domestic
work industry in the United
States.

24. LEADING
with Love
SPECIAL THANKS
NDWA extends our thanks to the following
without whom this celebration would not have been possible
Our dedicated event co-chairs
Simon Greer
Maya Harris
Benjamin Jealous
Manuel Pastor
Cecile Richards
Richard L. Trumka
Luz Vega-Marquis
All of our sponsors and the members our host committee
for your early and strong support
Our gracious award presenters and masters of ceremonies
Simon Greer
Sarita Gupta
Maya Harris
Arlene Holt-Baker
Jerret Johnson
Marcia Olivo
Our talented artists
Michele Asselin
Mike McCoy, LaRissa Ferrell and Voices United
Salvador Saramiento and Taller Cosita Seria
Our nimble production crew
Phoebe Eng and Cliff Parker, film creation
Omar Garcia, Jay Hobsen and Greg Walsh, videography
Rick Flanagan, composer
Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad y Rebelde
Carolina Kroon, photography
Alexandra Dubow, design
Lili Schwartz, design
Hal Kowenski and the team at Linemark, printing
Lisa Moore and Maria Poblet, interpretation
All of this evening’s volunteers
and Paul Booth, Matt Mayers and the team at AFSCME

25. Caring Across Generations
This is a unique moment for America. Our
country is aging—Baby Boomers are rapidly
turning over 65 while also confronting the need
to care for both their children and their elderly
parents. And yet we have no system set up to
support the care that is needed for this growing
segment of our population. At the same time,
we face record unemployment numbers and
stagnant economic growth.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance
and Jobs with Justice initiated Caring Across
Generations (CAG) recognizing that this
moment, while posing a particular challenge, presents a powerful opportunity—the possibility of creating
millions 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 care
for each other and to bridge the intergenerational relationship gap. Such a reframing will be crucial in
countering 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 joined
the effort. Together, we have:
• Held 7 Care Congresses, local Town Hall meetings, where thousands of caregivers, home care
workers, 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 groundwork
for federal legislation to create millions of quality care jobs.
• Supported the establishment of local Care Councils, like in Seattle where the local Care Council
won a city resolution in support of the campaign.
• Engaged over 500,000 senior voters during the 2012 election cycle in 5 states, about Medicare
and Social Security.
To read more about Caring Across Generations and join the movement,
visit www.caringacrossgenerations.org and follow us on Twitter @CaringAcrossGen

30. Congratulations to the
National Domestic Workers Alliance
for five years of groundbreaking work
in solidarity with domestic workers
in the US and around the world.
We send our deepest thanks.
The Board, Staff & Members of
Domestic Workers United

31. 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!

33. Que viva que viva la Alianza Nacional por su quinto aniversario.
Por su increíble trabajo, esfuerzo y dedicación en transformar a cada
organización y cada trabajadora que toca.
La Alianza es como los rayos del sol que
iluminan y transforman el corazón.
Trabajando organizando para que el trabajo del hogar sea
reconocido como un trabajo digno y respetado y que
sea tan importante como cualquier otro trabajo.
Long live the National Alliance for its fifth aniversary.
For its incredible work, effort and dedication to the transformation
of each organization and worker that it touches.
The Alliance is like rays of sunlight that
illuminate and transform the heart.
Working to organize so that domestic work be recognized
as dignified and respected work and that it be as
mportant as all other work.

35. 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.

37. 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

42. Felicidades a nuestras luchadoras de
Mujeres Unidas y Activas!
Your commitment and passion inspires me every day.
Andrea Lee

44. Bend the Arc: a Jewish Partnership for Justice is delighted to celebrate the
National Domestic Workers Alliance on this momentous occasion. NDWA
has helped to ensure that domestic workers – who do the work that makes
all other work possible – have the dignity and honor they deserve. May our
shared Caring Across Generations campaign yield many victories for the
workers who provide care and for those they support.

46. Domestic Workers of the World Unite!
We congratulate our sisters of the NDWA on 5 years
of inspirational work in support of millions of
domestic workers across the USA.
We celebrate your victories and invite domestic workers
from around the world to join us at the IDWN Founding Congress
in Uruguay in October, 2013.
Visit the website of the International Domestic Workers Network
for more details: www.IDWN.info.

47. JFREJ honors five years
of inspiring work by
our partners at the
National Domestic
Workers Alliance.
May you continue to
lead with love!
Congratulations on five inspiring years building the voice and
power 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 movement
that integrates personal and social transformation, creates compelling alternatives to the status quo and
embodies the creativity, life-affirming actions and rigor we need to accomplish systemic change.

49. Congratulations to the
National Domestic Workers Alliance and CASA Latina
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 Council
CASA Latina, Washington Community Action Network, SEIU 775 NW, Puget Sound Advocate for Retirement Action,
and 27 member organizations

51. Congratulations
on five incredible years
to the National Domestic
Workers Alliance from the
Working Families Party.

52. Uniting Food, Farm,
Hotel and Domestic Workers
Worldwide
In appreciation of the
National 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-1213
Petit-Lancy (Switzerland)
Phone: + 41 22 793 22 33
Fax: + 41 22 793 22 38
General Secretary : Ron Oswald
President : Hans-Olof Nilsson
www.iuf.org

53. Desde nuestro Principio/From our Beginnings
Hacia nuestro Futuro/Into our Future
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Está orgullosa de ser lideras de la ANTH!
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
is proud to be leaders of the NDWA!

54. Congratulations
to NDWA
and all the honorees!
Keep Leading
with Love!
WE ARE THE MAKERS OF HISTORY
Congratulations & Mabuhay NDWA
With love,
Filipino Advocates for Justice
310 – 8th St. #306
Oakland, CA 94607
www.filipinos4justice.org

56. Congratulations NDWA!
For five years you have led on the rights of
domestic workers and brought people together
across all differences with love.
Qué viva NDWA!
This is really milestone of the growth
of the domestic worker’s movement,
not only in North America, but worldwide.
Elizabeth Tang
IDWN Coordinator
On behalf of Domestic Workers Union (Sri lanka) and
Red Flag Women’s Movement I am happy to inform
you that your actions helping domestic workers are
felt all over the world. You gave the visibility to the
workers and you proved to the world that domestic ARC Congratulates
workers are workers. By our heart we congratulate
NDWA for the celebration of your 5th anniversary. National Domestic Workers Alliance
Menaha Kandasamy, Domestic Workers Union
on its 5th Anniversary!
(Sri lanka) and Red Flag Women’s Movement

57. What a great day it is — a victorious day,
a day to reflect on what you have achieved in
5 years. Yes, you keep the flame burning for
the most vulnerable workers. Yes domestic
work is decent work — we are workers also.
We in SADSAWU salute you. Solidarity forever.
Myrtle Witbooi
South African Domestic Workers Union
IDEPSCA congratulates the Congratulaciones para la NDWA en su
National Domestic Workers Alliance 5 aniversario y todos las honoradas
for 5 years of advancing Congratulations to NDWA on your
the fight for the rights of 5th Anniversary and to all the honorees
domestic workers from
our Women In Action
b
Unity Housecleaners & The Workplace Project
group thank you. Long Island, NY
Reciban un fraterno saludo de ATRAHDOM y del
Greenpeace congratulates
SITRADOMSA (el sindicato de trabajadoras del hogar
tonight’s honorees de Guatemala). Para nosotras en Guatemala es muy
and supports the important work importante saber que no estamos solas y que hay mas
of the NDWA mujeres y organizaciones a fuera luchando igual que
nosotras. Las felicitamos, son pioneras en la lucha.
Maritza Velásquez Estrada
ATRAHDOM y SITRADOMSA, Guatemala

58. Please receive our fraternal greeting from ATRAHDOM
and SITRADOMSA (the domestic workers union in
Guatemala). For us in Guatemala it’s so important to
know that we are not alone and that there are more
women and organizations fighting just like us.
We congratulate you, you are pioneers in this fight.
Maritza Velásquez Estrada
ATRAHDOM and SITRADOMSA, Guatemala
On behalf of all the domestic workers and other members FNM hails the
of the SEWA Union, I acknowledge the great work that
the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance has done and
fantastic work of
the success achieved. We congratulate the Alliance for NDWA, we’re
not only being able to sustain itself but for also drawing
looking forward to
the attention of the authorities and the public thereby
giving visibility to a sector that is so indispensable and helping it spread
yet not acknowledged.
throughout the
Nalini Nayak, Self Employed Women’s Association—India Sunshine State.
We are so proud to be members of NDWA
and constantly inspired for the Alliance’s bold
visionary leadership!
Congratulations
Somos muy orgullos@s de ser miembros de la on the important advances you have made
Alianza y constantamente inspirad@s por su and the many victories that lie ahead!
liderazgo tan fuerte y visionario!

59. NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ai-jen Poo Luci Morris
NDWA Brazilian Immigrant Center
Rose Alovera Linda Oalican
DAMAYAN DAMAYAN
Gilda Blanco Antonia Peña
Casa Latina Casa de Maryland
Maria Guadalupe Distancia Alicia Pérez Sánchez
Mujeres Unidas y Activas Southwest Workers Union
Juana Flores Herminia Servat
Mujeres Unidas y Activas Casa de Maryland
Araceli Hernandez Alta Starr
Casa Latina
Tracy Sturdivant
Ilyse Hogue State Voices
Genaro Lopez-Rendon Natalicia Tracy
Southwest Workers Union Brazilian Immigrant Center
Idelisse Malavé
STAFF
Ai-jen Poo Yomara Velez
Director State Strategies Organizer
Linda Burnham Mariana Viturro
National Research Director Deputy Director
Tara Shuai Ellison Barbara Young
Finance & Operations Director National Organizer
Felicia Martinez Atlanta Chapter Staff
Assistant to the Director
Tamieka Atkins
Andrea Cristina Mercado Atlanta Chapter Director
National Campaign Director
Jerret Johnson
Lisa Moore Atlanta Organizer
Gender & Immigration
Campaign Organizer Leading with Love Staff
Yashna Maya Padamsee Sophia Giddens
Administrative Coordinator Event Assistant
Perla Placencia Cynthia Greenberg
Lead Organizer External Relations & Partnerships
Maria Reyes Jonathan Kissam
National Organizer Communications
Jill Shenker Bekah Mandell
Field Director Communications

60. Winning respect for the work that touches us all
www.domesticworkers.org
330 Seventh Avenue, 19th Floor | New York, NY 10001 | Tel 646-360-5806 | Fax 212-213-2233