Lola Smallwood-Cuevas

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As director of the BWC, Ms. Smallwood-Cuevas is a also a Project Director at the UCLA Labor Center and coordinates the African American Union Leadership School (AAULS), the first union leadership school in California focused on developing the next generation of union leaders through popular education. In addition, Ms. Smallwood Cuevas spearheads the Labor Center’s many South LA-focused programs, publications and undergraduate field research projects. Ms. Smallwood Cuevas is co-author of the Labor Center’s publication “Women’s Work: Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement” and “Common Cause,” a chapter on LA’s Black community and Labor in the upcoming UCLA Bunche Center publication Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities.”

Before joining the Labor Center, she served as the political and community organizer for SEIU National Security Organizing campaign in LA. She built a dynamic Black community/political coalition that withstood seven years of hard organizing and built new models of labor/community relationship. This relationship resulted in the first Black woman named president of the newly organized Security Officers United in Los Angeles (SOULA 2006) and the first-time community partners participated directly in the union contract negotiating process.

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