People Organized to Win Employment Rights
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POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) is based in San Francisco. It is one of several organizations in the area originally built around the now defunct revolutionary organization STORM[1].
- POWER builds the power of working class African Americans and Latinas in San Francisco to make change in our communities and to build a vibrant movement for economic, environmental, racial and gender justice.
POWER receives funding through grants from the Kendra Alexander Foundation, as well as through other means.[2]
Staff
POWER Staff, as of 2009[3];
- Alicia Garza, Co-Executive Director
- Aspen Branch-Moore, Director of Fundraising and Finances
- Beatriz Herrera, Women Worker's Project Organizer
- Davu Flint, Bayview Organizing Project Organizer
- Donaji Lona, Women Worker's Project Organizer
- Jaron Browne, Bayview Organizing Project Organizer
- Juana Teresa Tello, Youth In POWER Organizer
- Karen Gibson, Office Manager
- Steve Williams, Co-Executive Director
- Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, Child Care Coordinator
