Deepak Pateriya has been an organizer, campaigner and alliance builder since the 1990’s, in community organizing, the labor movement, and electoral politics. He is the former Managing Director Community Change & Community Change Action; formerly at SEIU & UFCW & SCOPE. He is also the author of the chapter “Win Justice and Beyond: Winning Elections While Building Power for the Long Term” in Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections.