274 - Pressures, Power, and Afrolatinidad with Analilia Mejia
274 - Pressures, Power, and Afrolatinidad with Analilia Mejia
Listeners, we're back this week with Analilia Mejia
Analilia Mejia is one of the foremost national political leaders in the progressive movement and is the Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy, the nation’s largest multiracial organizing network on the left. Prior, she served as the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau Deputy Director. Previously, Mejia built on her experience of running victorious issue advocacy campaigns to serve as Political Director on Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, which built a massive rank-and-file union support program and galvanized Latino groups across the country. Analilia is a proud Afro-Latina, Jersey girl, and mom of two.
During this episode we talked about:
04:40 - Growing up working class
05:27 - Thrive and not just survive
08:46 - A union job changed everything
14:56 - Privileges
17:28 - Types of organizations and being a power-building org
18:15 - All actions are worthy
21:45 - Being afrolatina
31:08 - Education
36:27 - Her work journey
38:04 - Pressures and power
41:28 - History of violence
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