Saru Jayaraman

Co-Director | Restaurant Opportunities Centers United

Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Co-Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. She authored Behind the Kitchen Door, forthcoming February 2013 from Cornell University Press.

Presentations from Facing Race 2014

Racing Up Your Movement

Race plays a role in every issue, but is often ignored in crafting strategy. In this workshop, three national leaders will reveal how their organizations and allies asserted a race frame on movements that were predominantly white. From stories about shifting the good food, reproductive rights and media reform movements, attendees will learn principles and gather ideas for research, leadership development and communications to blast through resistance to a race frame.

Speakers: Malkia Cyril, Saru Jayaraman, Miriam Yeung, Paris Hatcher

Presentations from Facing Race 2012

Raising Funds for Racial Justice

The workshop will offer an overview of fundraising for social justice causes, particularly racial justice. We will cover the basics of grassroots fundraising among individuals, as well as grant research and writing.

Speakers: Saru Jayaraman, Marjorie Fine

No Justice, No Peas: Good Food, Good Jobs

A growing movement is concerned about access to sustainable food as well as democratic control over food production. Globally, this is the food sovereignty movement; here in the United States it is known as food justice. Innovative organizers are bridging the worlds of good food and workers' rights to create innovative solutions that will both transform our food system an provide sustainable livelihoods for food chain workers.

Speakers: Saru Jayaraman, Navina Khanna, Suguet Lopez, Diana Robinson