Cristina Jiménez Moreta is a community organizer, strategist, and freedom fighter. She is the Executive Director & Co-founder of United We Dream (UWD), the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country. Under Cristina’s leadership, UWD has grown to a powerful network of over 100 groups, 800,000 members, and a reach of 5.5 million people per month.

Cristina migrated to Queens, New York from Ecuador with her family at the age of 13 seeking a better life. Cristina lived undocumented for 12 years, attending high school and college as an undocumented student. She has been organizing in immigrant communities for over a decade and was part of UWD’s campaign team that led to the historic victory of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012 that protected close to a million young immigrants from deportation.

For her work as a social justice organizer Cristina was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine, and was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2017. Cristina currently serves on the board of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, the Hazen Foundation, Make the Road New York Action and the Dream.US.

Deepak Bhargava is a policy expert on issues of poverty, economic justice, racial equity, and immigration, and has extensive practical experience in community organizing, leadership development, social movements, progressive strategy, issue campaigns, coalition building and voter mobilization. He was President and Executive Director of Community Change and Community Change Action for 16 years, two of the premier national organizations supporting grassroots community organizing in low-income communities of color in the United States. He has trained and mentored hundreds of leaders who play key roles in progressive organizations and social justice movements, and worked to establish important labor-community partnerships at the national level on issues such as immigration reform, health care, and fiscal policy.

Edwin Robinson works as a community organizer, political consultant and movement strategist with a background in organizing Black people, poor people, and people of faith. Edwin’s goal of building the revolutionary governing power of ordinary people like himself to deconstruct death dealing systems and reconstruct a life giving society is what drives him in this work. Edwin believes through the leadership of those who have been made to be "the least of these" we can accomplish this mission.

Mehrdad Azemun is a Social justice veteran with 20+ years of deep experience rooted in Chicago at the local, state and national level with roots in community organizing, immigrants rights, electoral campaigns and economic justice. Trusted and tested, with know-how, experience and street smarts stretching from suburban church basements to Springfield and Washington, DC. An “organizer’s organizer” with a keen head for strategy, a warm heart for people, and eyes on winning.

Kyky is a movement organizer with roots in and a heart after the deep US south, a chronic migraine and asthma patient advocate, and a multidisciplinary creative. She is a pole dancer, musician, poet, and self portrait artist whose lens focuses on black womanhood, black joy, fantasy, and playfulness. Kyky works as a national Senior Organizing Manager, where she develops organizing curriculum, supports blitzes and organizing drives, runs trainings for new, developing , and lead organizers, and supports organizer development and leadership over time at base building organizations across the US. She comes out of labor organizing. She is eager always to grow and develop as an organizer, and share knowledge with others.

Stephanie Luce is a Professor of Labor Studies at the School of Labor and Urban Studies, and a Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She received her BA at the University of California, Davis and both her PhD in sociology and her MA in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Best known for her research on living wage campaigns and movements, she is the author of Fighting for a Living Wage, and co-author of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy, and The Measure of Fairness. Her current research focuses on globalization and labor standards, labor-community coalitions, and regional labor markets. She is also author of Labor Movements: Global Perspectives.