Staff

Kimi Lee, UWC Coordinator

Kimi Lee has been organizing and working with social justice organizations for the past 20 years since she was a teenager in San Francisco. Most recently she was the coordinator for the Alliance for Educational Justice, a network of youth organizing groups fighting for quality public education for all students. Before that, she was the Executive Director (and Co-Founder) of the Garment Worker Center (GWC), a worker center organizing Latino and Chinese garment workers in Los Angeles.

With the GWC, she helped to coordinate a national boycott against a young women's clothing chain (Forever 21) and organized many actions in solidarity with other workers in LA and around the world. She was on the coordinating committee for MIWON, the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network and helped to start a worker leadership school. Before the GWC, she was the Field Director for the ACLU of Southern California and worked on criminal justice issues such as police brutality and against prisons and harsh drug laws. She coordinated the No on Prop 21 campaign and helped to start Southern Californians for Youth, a youth organizing network in LA. Before the moving to Los Angeles, she organized students with the University of California Student Association and organized students of color to fight for affirmative action, register student voters and to stop fee hikes during the 1990's.

She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center as part of a cohort of consultants who are creating a toolkit and training materials on national alliance building.