We are excited to announce that our Executive Director, Jeanette Huezo, will be representing United for a Fair Economy at the 32nd annual conference hosted by the International Association of Feminist Economics in Rome, Italy. This year’s theme focuses on feminist economics responses to the digital revolution and a crisis of democracy of the current economic and political landscape.

On June 12th, UFE’s Worker’s Rights Organizer Victor Urquiza and Inclusive Economies Project Director Kayan Cheung-Miaw participated in a Communications Initiative Workshop hosted by the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers. This was made possible due to the great generosity of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and United for a Fair Economy appreciates their support from the bottom of our hearts.

We are excited to welcome three interns this summer — one from Student Action with Farmworkers and two from the Social Justice strand of Brandeis University's World of Work (WOW) internship. Please join us in welcoming them!

UFE participated in the Southern Workers School with the Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 17-18, 2024. This powerful gathering of over 170 workers and organizers across the country displayed the power of an organized multiracial working class. 

(Photo credit: Southern Workers Assembly)

Durham city workers organizing with UE150 — a member group of the UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC coalition — are out in the streets and testifying at City Council for fair pay. UFE is there with our movement supports.

We are still shining from our annual Spring Training of Trainers — at our beautiful Avila Center for Community Leadership in Durham, North Carolina — where emerging and seasoned leaders from Alabama, North Carolina, and beyond came together to build, dream, heal and grow.

 GOSA 2024 cohort members, facilitators, interpreters and children 

UFE’s Grassroots Organizing School of Alabama (GOSA) – co-founded with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice –  is developing organizer-leaders from Alabama’s Black, Latinx, and immigrant communities to advance base-building initiatives that promote economic justice. 

UFE's Eroc Arroyo-Montano, Director of Cultural Organizing, speaks about the value of “working small” to build our movements.

Should movement organizations prioritize scaling up, or is there value in operating on a smaller scale within social movements? Gabrielle Dominique, UFE's 2023-2024 Tisch Scholar, sat down with Eroc to explore this question.

We recently re-watched UFE's webinar on Personal & Collective Healing for Liberation, and fell in love with it all over again.

Featuring UFE's own Eroc Arroyo-Montano, Director of Cultural Organizing, and frequent UFE collaborators Luana Morales and Lawrence Barriner II, the conversation has us reflecting on agency, joy, boundaries, rest, family and ancestral legacies, breaking spells, and so much more. Give it a listen!

The UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC (RWNC) coalition converged with the NC Families Care (NCFC) coalition at the Avila Center in Durham, NC from Wednesday, January 10th, to Thursday, January 11th, 2024.

This powerful gathering of organizers, workers, and revolutionaries was used to analyze the political, social and economic landscape of North Carolina and strategically plan for the new year.