I am the Director of the Centre for Progressive Change, an organisation aimed at building national organising campaigns.

The main topic of my Fellowship was how to build a powerful movement of low-wage migrant workers. I was interested in this topic because I have been organising and campaigning for the rights of migrant cleaners since 2014. As a Latinx migrant myself, I care about this issue. Many migrants come to the UK looking for a better life and end up in low-paid work with terrible working conditions. For my Fellowship, I looked to learn from organisations in the USA and Brazil about how we can build a powerful movement of low-paid migrant workers so that together we can improve the working conditions of these key workers in the UK.

Since my Fellowship, I have taken what I learnt and have built my own organisation looking at how we can build effective national organising campaigns. The first campaign is called Cleaners United, where we bring together trade unions and community organisations to campaign to improve the working conditions of cleaners nationally.