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Community Partnerships Coordinator
Bio/CV:
Vera Parra is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on labor, migration, and political economy. Her current research examines how shifting trade and development regimes impact labor organizing on either side of the US-Mexico border. Vera conducts research and training with immigrant worker centers and labor unions. Before graduate school, she spent 10 years organizing in the immigrant rights movement. As an organizer with the Cosecha Movement, she led a successful statewide campaign to expand access to driver's licenses to immigrants in New Jersey, regardless of status, and coordinated the national field program. Before joining Cosecha, Vera worked with Faith In New Jersey, an affiliate of Faith In Action (formerly the PICO National Network). She was introduced to organizing through the Dream Movement, where she participated in campaigns to expand in-state tuition to undocumented students, stop deportations, and pressure the Obama Administration to grant administrative relief to immigrants nationwide.
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