Irene Rojas-Carroll is the Senior Communications Manager at Bay Rising Action, a grassroots political network that champions strong leaders representing our racial, economic, and environmental justice movements and builds the political power of working-class, immigrant, Black, Latinx, and Asian communities. She was born and raised in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area and has also worked with the ACLU of Northern California, the Greenlining Institute, the Brown Boi Project, and student organizing projects on racial, gender, labor, and environmental/land justice issues. Marcy Rein is a member of the Organizing Upgrade editorial board.