We are excited to announce Gretchen Wang and Daniel Willis as our Summer 2025 interns. Gretchen and Daniel join us from the Social Justice strand of Brandeis University's World of Work (WOW) internship program.

They will be gathering data for a round of updates to UFE's Popular Economics Education workshops, and writing blogs to share UFE's impactful program work. Please join us in welcoming them!

Agradecido por un tiempo especial en UFE

Honoring Anne Price and Tess Ewing as they pass the torch of leadership / Honrando a Anne Price y Tess Ewing al pasar la antorcha del liderazgo

On March 25, 2025, UFE joined workers, advocates, and allies from across North Carolina gathered at the General Assembly in Raleigh for a Day of Action to demand policies that reflect the dignity of working people. Their message? North Carolina cannot afford to delay basic economic dignity any longer. 

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Featuring Iralda Hernández, Yamileth Gonzalez, and Maria Gonzalez

This year, UFE’s Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA) welcomed its 3rd annual cohort, a diverse group of 26 organizers, advocates, and community leaders. Among them was returning alumnus and now facilitator Iralda Hernández — joined this time by two of her daughters, Yamileth and Maria.

For this family, GOSA wasn’t just a retreat, it was a practice in moving at the speed of trust. That kind of movement doesn’t begin with strategy; it begins with relationship. By showing up fully for themselves and each other, they modeled what it looks like to build power from the ground up.

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UFE’s Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA) welcomed our 3rd annual cohort and held our first training of 2025! GOSA develops strong organizers in Alabama, equipping them with knowledge, facilitation skills, healing for liberation practices, and language justice tools.

Spring 2025 GOSA participants, facilitators, and interpreters. Jeannette Huezo,
front row, fourth from left; Ana Delia Espino, second row, left.

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After a Training of Trainers, participants reflect on personal transformation and community building in their economic and racial justice work.

After a Training of Trainers, participants' reflections highlight core themes in economic justice movement building.

Reflections on UFE’s Fall Training of Trainers

In this piece, Yashini Krishnakumar, UFE’s 2024-2025 Tisch Scholar, reflects on her experiences of sharing stories and developing critical consciousness at UFE’s Fall Training of Trainers. It was held November 14–17, 2024 at the Avila Center for Community Leadership.

Fall 2024 Training of Trainer participants, facilitators, interpreters, and participants’ children. Yashini Krishnakumar, front row, second from left.

Two alumni of UFE’s Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA) were recently selected to participate in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Advocacy Institute in Alabama. 

Iralda Hernández, part of the GOSA 2023 cohort, and Aurora Sanchez, from GOSA 2024, worked together to develop and present a campaign in support of making voter registration automatic in Alabama.

See and feel a UFE Training of Trainers — in just one minute.

(the only fight that is lost is the one that is abandoned)

Post-election reflections

by Jeannette Huezo, UFE Executive Director and Senior Popular Educator

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It has been one month since the re-election of a billionaire who has promised to sharply curtail civil liberties, dismantle core parts of the institutional infrastructure for governing, round up and deport millions of immigrants, and shift more billions of dollars to his cronies.