Raquel Laviña

A longtime organizer, Raquel was pushed, literally, into activism when she attempted to get services from Planned Parenthood as a teenager. She went on to help develop the form of youth organizing we know today before spending a decade in the domestic workers movement, at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, amplifying the value of all work and dignity of all workers. Most recently, she’s played a key role in a collaboration with the Working Families Party and Grassroots Power Project. As a healer, she integrates personal transformation practices into power building work, knowing we can show up as better leaders, comrades and strategists when we are not taking action from trauma, but from center.