And Still I Rise

VALERIE ERVIN

Executive Director, National Participatory Democracy Project, a project of the Working Families Organization (WFO); Former Councilmember and President, Montgomery County Council | Silver Spring, Maryland

Valerie Ervin

“We need to be on the front lines of leadership … not behind the scenes”

From grocery store bagger and single mom to elected official, a former union organizer talks about the power of unions to politicize black women

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