Ai-jen Poo
Organizing immigrant women for change.Ai-jen Poo created Domestic Workers United to fight for the rights that many take for granted. The group was instrumental in getting the first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in the country passed, in New York. This historic state law guarantees that these (mostly women) workers have eight-hour workdays, get at least one day of rest per week, receive overtime pay, and are legally protected against sexual abuse and wage theft. Since that 2000 victory, California, Hawaii, and Massachusetts have passed similar laws. She's now the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the co-founder of the elderly-rights group Caring Across Generations. Poo has been among TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and she has received the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Grant. She dropped her first book, The Age of Dignity, this year.
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