Liliana Rivera Baiman

Liliana (Lili) Rivera Baiman is the National Organizing Manager for the Housing Justice Team, she works very closely with our affiliates on basebuilding, leadership development and organizing local and national campaigns.

Lili has worked to build progressive movements alongside workers and working families for the last 15 years. She was born in rural San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and immigrated to the U.S. as a child. She has spent the entirety of her career fighting for immigrant and worker justice, primarily as a union organizer with SEIU, AFSCME and the Nurses Union and most recently in digital organizing with the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

While still a student at the University of Houston she began her organizing career with SEIU's historic Justice for Janitors Campaign. She spent much of her free time organizing workers like her mother, immigrant women of color making less than $100 dollars a week who cleaned offices for Fortune 500 Companies like Chase and Shell.

In 2019 as a new mother, she ran for Columbus City Council. A highlight of her campaign platform was the creation of truly affordable housing for working families, maintaining a support network for tenants, and putting an end to unnecessary tax abatements handed out to wealthy corporations at the expense of public schools. Lili holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Houston. She is part of the 2022 Movement Leaders fellowship program with the Center for Democracy and Social Justice and CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. She loves to hike, garden and make candles (a trade passed down by women in her village) in her spare time. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Jeremy, son Dylan, and cat Moose.