Ligia Guallpa is the Executive Director of Worker’s Justice Project in New York City.

From http://www.workersjustice.org/about-us: Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) is a Brooklyn-based worker center that addresses the racial and economic injustice that day laborers and domestic workers face by building collective power and creating solutions to the problems our members experience at work and in communities where they live. WJP has a growing a membership based that is building power to win protection, adopt, enforce community labor standards and transform exploitative labor practices in unregulated industries such as construction and house cleaning.

Their mission is to empower low-wage immigrant workers to gain a voice in the workplace and build strong and economically sustainable communities through education, organizing, leadership development, and the growth of grassroots economic alternatives.

Their main goals are to change the conditions that lead to exploitation, to strengthen the grassroots base of the labor movement, and to create grassroots economic alternatives.