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Dear Friends,

We are thrilled to introduce our new Executive Director, Natalicia Tracy! She brings decades of experience to this work as a skilled organizer and former Executive Director of the Brazilian Workers Center (BWC), and most recently as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Director of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) at the US Department of Labor. We are so excited to have Natalicia lead CLU into our next exciting chapter of building power for all workers and the communities we live in.
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At OSHA, Natalicia worked to deepen the Agency’s outreach to marginalized workers and to foster equitable hiring within the agency. A major focus of her work was coalition building among unions, community groups, and faith organizations that could bring more insights into the development of new policies at the national level to promote racial justice, gender equity, and workplace safety.

Prior to her work at OSHA, Natalicia was the Executive Director of the Brazilian Worker Center (BWC), one of the oldest and largest Brazilian organizations in Boston with a mission to protect and advance the rights of immigrant workers in the New England region. For many years, BWC has been a coalition partner of Community Labor United, and Natalicia has also served as BWC’s representative on the Executive Board of the Greater Boston Central Labor Council.

Natalicia has led several organizing and policy campaigns in coalition with community and labor partners, including the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights with the Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers, the Work & Family Mobility Act with SEIU32BJ, and the An Act to Prevent Wage Theft with the MA AFL-CIO.

Natalicia was also a professor of Labor Studies and Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and as an experienced researcher, she planned and directed many community-based participatory research projects on labor, race, and immigration issues. Many of these projects were done as a community partner of NIH-funded research at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston University, Tufts University, Boston College, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Natalícia was first brought to the United States as a teenage nanny with an 8th grade education. After many years of doing domestic work while going to school, she earned a Sociology Ph.D. from Boston University in 2016. Her leadership, organizing and writing has long been focused on ensuring that all workers are treated with respect, and do not have to suffer the abuse she herself experienced as a trafficked teenaged immigrant worker in Boston.

Community Labor United is leading some groundbreaking campaigns–from ensuring the transition to a more sustainable economy includes good union careers, to eliminating barriers to affordable childcare and public transit–and we can’t think of a more skilled, experienced leader to be at the helm of CLU at this time than Natalicia. Especially given the national political landscape, she understands that building power at the local level with a long term strategy is the only way we will get through these challenging times together.

Please join us in welcoming back to Boston Natalicia Tracy!
In solidarity,

Darlene Lombos
Board Chair of Community Labor United
President of the Greater Boston Labor Council

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