Lola Smallwood Cuevas
Director |
LA Black Workers Center
Lola Smallwood Cuevas focuses on exploring the role of unions, empowering African American workers in Los Angeles, and strengthening the black working class. She currently directs the Los Angeles Black Worker Center (BWC), a project of the UCLA Labor Center and the first worker center in California focused on solving the black job crisis. Previously, Lola worked as a political and community coordinator for SEIU Local 1877. She has a background in journalism, and is co-editor of the publication Women’s Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement.
Presentations from Facing Race 2016
Systemic Solutions to a Segregated Economy in the 21st Century
What will it take to eradicate job segregation in the 21st century? Should we organize to transform federal legal protections? Pressure employers to shift company policies and practices? Require state/local governments to incentivize or mandate systemic equity throughout U.S. industries? In this workshop, advocates will highlight diverse strategies that aim both to protect workers of color from race-based discrimination and proactively engineer systems to prevent future systemic inequity in hiring, promotions and treatment. From political lobbying, worker organizing, consumer-driven campaigns and applied research, participants will learn and engage around the most effective solutions to racism in the economy.
Speakers: Dominique Apollon, Lola Smallwood Cuevas, Evelyn Rangel Medina