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See- Michele fights systems, not people. More importantly, she motivates people to fight systems and not each other. For over 10 years, Michele Gilliam has held leadership roles on three presidential campaigns: Bernie 2016, Hillary for America, and Elizabeth Warren’s bid in 2020. A proud trade unionist, Michele started her career in labor as an organizer for the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and worked as the union’s Political and Legislative Director in between campaigns.
See- Michele fights systems, not people. More importantly, she motivates people to fight systems and not each other. For over 10 years, Michele Gilliam has held leadership roles on three presidential campaigns: Bernie 2016, Hillary for America, and Elizabeth Warren’s bid in 2020. A proud trade unionist, Michele started her career in labor as an organizer for the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and worked as the union’s Political and Legislative Director in between campaigns. The lessons she learned in the labor movement were utilized years later at the Action Center and Race and the Economy (ACRE), an organization that perfectly married her ideology and her skill set. During her tenure, she effectively connected the organization to on-the-ground fights. Michele mobilized organizational support for abortion funds following the fall of Roe vs. Wade. The organization also provided strategic research and communications support for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance in their successful hunger strike in 2021. Michele is most proud of the work ACRE did with grassroots climate activists in Upstate New York. They were able to pass the Crypto Moratorium bill in 2023, one of the few pieces of legislation in the country that regulates the industry.
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about
The lessons she learned in the labor movement were utilized years later at the Action Center and Race and the Economy (ACRE), an organization that perfectly married her ideology and her skill set. During her tenure, she effectively connected the organization to on-the-ground fights. Michele mobilized organizational support for abortion funds following the fall of Roe vs. Wade. The organization also provided strategic research and communications support for the New York Taxi Workers Alliance in their successful hunger strike in 2021. Michele is most proud of the work ACRE did with grassroots climate activists in Upstate New York. They were able to pass the Crypto Moratorium bill in 2023, one of the few pieces of legislation in the country that regulates the industry.
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Michele’s organizing experience expands beyond her work in politics and labor. The expansiveness of her political career has dominated much of her life but her heart is equally full with the love of writing. Much of her activism carried over into the various volunteer roles she held at the New York Writers Coalition (NYWC), an organization she was involved with for eighteen years until their closure in 2024. The non-profit provided free creative writing workshops for historically disenfranchised populations and when the pandemic began, she started facilitating her own writing workshops and was a member of its Board of Directors. Since the start of the pandemic, she led free virtual writing workshops for the Black Writers Program and started her own weekly workshop entitled Pushing Through. Michele’s writings have been published in Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Newtown Literary Journal, qns.com, and the New York Daily News. Her first play, Displaced, was read at the Castillo Theater in 2012.
Michele’s organizing experience expands beyond her work in politics and labor. The expansiveness of her political career has dominated much of her life but her heart is equally full with the love of writing. Much of her activism carried over into the various volunteer roles she held at the New York Writers Coalition (NYWC), an organization she was involved with for eighteen years until their closure in 2024. The non-profit provided free creative writing workshops for historically disenfranchised populations and when the pandemic began, she started facilitating her own writing workshops and was a member of its Board of Directors. Since the start of the pandemic, she led free virtual writing workshops for the Black Writers Program and started her own weekly workshop entitled Pushing Through. Michele’s writings have been published in Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Newtown Literary Journal, qns.com, and the New York Daily News. Her first play, Displaced, was read at the Castillo Theater in 2012.