WHO WE ARE
Our Team
Our Team
At Coworker.org, our talented, passionate team deploys digital tools, data, and strategies in service of helping people improve their work lives and build power. We invest in the brilliance of working people. And we support the leadership and vision of working people to imagine, design, and create our collective future.
Raland Hatchett
Interim Executive Director
Tim Newman
Director of Worker Impact
Drew Ambrogi
Director of Gig Worker Projects
Elizabeth Baires
Senior Manager of Culture, Operations and Development
Marley Pulido
Director, Worker Resources and Training
Antonio Aguilera
Senior Director, Worker-led Projects
Nur
Senior Campaign Strategist
Wilneida Negrón
Director of Policy and Research
Kortni Malone
Director of Leadership Development
Kendra Ijeoma
Director of Communications & Campaigns
Raland Hatchett
Interim Executive Director
Raland Hatchett
Interim Executive Director
Tim Newman
Director of Worker Impact
Tim Newman
Director of Worker Impact
Tim helps people leverage Coworker.org’s tools and peer networks to influence employers and win change in the workplace. Before joining Coworker.org, Tim served as a Deputy Campaign Director at Change.org where he supported site users to run and win campaigns on the platform. He also worked as a Campaigns Director at the International Labor Rights Forum.
Drew Ambrogi
Director of Gig Worker Projects
Drew Ambrogi
Director of Gig Worker Projects
Drew works on Coworker’s campaigns team to support workers’ efforts to build power in the workplace and leverage digital tools for meaningful change. Before joining the team in 2019, Drew worked as a digital strategist at a national racial justice organization, where he served as President of their staff union, and on the side as a communications consultant for grassroots community organizations. Drew currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
Elizabeth Baires
Senior Manager of Culture, Operations and Development
Elizabeth Baires
Senior Manager of Culture, Operations and Development
Elizabeth leads the Operations, Culture and Development at Coworker.org. She works closely with the executive team, program staff and our fiscal sponsor to identify structures that support the strategic direction of the organization. She also leads the logistics of organizational development and fundraising. Elizabeth comes to Coworker as a longtime project manager and organizer committed to building a more equitable world for Black and Brown workers at organizations such as Javier’s Plumbing, LLC, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the National Education Association.
Marley Pulido
Director, Worker Resources and Training
Marley Pulido
Director, Worker Resources and Training
Marley Pulido is a movement builder based in the DC area. He is a Director, Worker Resources and Training at Coworker.org where he helps tech workers organize at the intersection of socially responsible tech and worker’s rights. Marley’s movement work has been broad and impactful: He’s managed a binational advocacy program to help ease U.S. trade restrictions on Cuba, taught an experiential learning class at the intersection of immigration and labor at George Mason University, led crucial voter engagement and partnership development work in several electoral cycles in Virginia, and built local campaigns to fight wage theft. He co-founded La Luchita Project, which facilitates exchanges between community organizers in the US and Cuba.
Antonio Aguilera
Senior Director, Worker-led Projects
Antonio Aguilera
Senior Director, Worker-led Projects
Antonio is Senior Director of Worker-led Projects at Coworker.org and Interim Executive Director of the Coworker Solidarity Fund. Antonio is an innovator at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and worker rights. Since joining Coworker, he has coached and supported workers organizing in tech companies to access networks, skills, and tools to successfully improve working conditions, and address ethical concerns in tech workplaces. She previously helped develop an app for organizing low-income immigrant labor and domestic workers. They are based in San Francisco, CA.
Nur
Senior Campaign Strategist
Nur
Senior Campaign Strategist
Nur joined the Coworker.org team in 2019 as a campaigns strategist, supporting and strategizing with workers across industries to make meaningful changes in the workplace. Nur comes to Coworker with almost a decade of grassroots organizing, leadership development and campaign experience, having served as the NC Lead Organizer for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, board member and organizer for North Carolina IPO, Durham For All and previously organized with SEIU’s Fight For $15 campaign.
Wilneida Negrón
Director of Policy and Research
Wilneida Negrón
Director of Policy and Research
Wilneida Negrón most recently worked at the Ford Foundation, where she led cross-thematic area strategy development between the Gender, Race, Ethnic Justice, Technology and Society, Mission Investing, Future of Work(ers), and Civic Engagement Thematic areas, with a focus on helping labor movements deepen and leverage economic partnerships and movement-based partnerships. She is currently part of the Steering Committee Team for the Ford Foundation’s and Mozilla’s Public efforts to explore how to continue to foster the impact and sustainability of public interest technology projects in the US, Europe, and the Global South. She works on the frontlines of social change spaces, fostering new multi-issue and cross-sectoral approaches and solutions to our increasingly complex socio-technical world and serves as a strategic advisor, consultant, and capacity-builder to emerging and established national and global civil and human rights organizations.
She has a PhD in Comparative Politics, with a specialization in social and political implications of emerging technologies in East Asia and Latin America, a Masters in Public Administration, and an M.Phil. in International and Global Affairs. She is a lifelong fellow for Data & Society Research Institute and the Atlantic Fellows Program for Racial Equity.
Kortni Malone
Director of Leadership Development
Kortni Malone
Director of Leadership Development
Kortni Malone has spent the past 15 years fighting for justice for students and communities in Michigan and across the country. A teacher by trade, Kortni left the school system in Detroit to seek new ways to build power with Black and Brown people. She has worked in community based non-profit as well as at the intersection of issue advocacy and electoral strategy with organizations like Color of Change, NextGen America, and Elizabeth Warren for President. Throughout her career, she has trained thousands of folks from professionals in the organizing world to volunteers and community members—cultivating leadership and building power to fight for change. Kortni believes that everyday folks, with the vision, the training, and a good plan, have the power they need to get the change they seek.
Kendra Ijeoma
Director of Communications & Campaigns
Kendra Ijeoma
Director of Communications & Campaigns
Kendra Ijeoma is the Director of Communications & Campaigns for Coworker.org. Kendra has spent her career at the intersection of technology and movement building. She’s helped organizations, brands, and progressive politicians communicate their value, mobilize their people, and raise millions for good. Kendra has worked for a number of progressive causes, but believes that worker empowerment is central to building the world we need — one of radical equity, justice, and compassion.
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