April Verrett serves as President of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 2015 – the nation’s largest long term care union representing 400,000 home care and nursing home workers throughout California. Before being President, April served as an Executive Vice President of Local 2015 and was instrumental in its creation when long term care workers throughout California united for greater strength.
Prior to Local 2015, April served as Executive Vice President of SEIU, Healthcare Illinois and Indiana (HCII). HCII is the largest union of healthcare workers in the Midwest, representing 92,000 hospital, nursing home, home care workers and child care providers across Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas.
April is also a member of the SEIU International Executive Board and serves on SEIU’s Racial Justice Center, Organizing Committee and the Together We Rise Oversight Committee, as well as Governor Newsom’s Alzheimer’s Prevention and Preparedness Task Force.
As a labor leader and activist, April has spent most of her career helping workers form unions to ensure that their voices are heard and respected. April is a tireless advocate for working people, driven by the belief that “unions give workers a platform to fight for more than wages, benefits and working conditions, but also around everything that matters in our members’ lives and their communities.”
Twitter: @AprilDVerrett
Instagram: @AprilDVerrett
The Honorable Sebastian Ridley-Thomas (Ret.) serves as Chief Strategist of the African American Voter Registration, Education, and Participation (AAVREP) Political Action Committee. AAVREP is the longest continuously-operating voter registration and turnout organization in the State of California.
A student of campaigns and elections, Ridley-Thomas has worked on campaigns from a very young age. He is a millennial dedicated to community building and empowerment.
Prior to joining AAVREP, Ridley-Thomas represented Southwest and West Los Angeles in the California State Assembly for three terms where he focused on issues ranging from economic development to civil rights. He made voting rights a high priority and chaired the Committee on Elections and Redistricting where he crafted California’s landmark automatic voter registration law, updates to the new motor voter program, advanced permanent absentee voting, and strengthened the California Voting Rights Act in the face of federal attacks. Ridley-Thomas graduated from Morehouse College in 2009, where he majored in sociology.
Address: 3847 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Phone: (323) 291-5441
Twitter: @SebastianMRT
Website: www.AAVREP.org
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