Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa

Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa leads our Economic Justice Campaigns which includes Worker Justice, Fed Up, and Wall St. Accountability. Osmani has organized around labor rights, immigrant rights, and mass incarceration for the past almost 20 years. After graduating from the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University in 2006, Osmani has lived in Arizona, Texas and New Mexico where they worked as an organizer with immigrant families, day labor workers, domestic workers, and LGBTQ asylum-seekers in detention. Osmani was the Programs Director of the Southside Worker Center in Tucson, AZ for five years and most recently he was the Executive Director of Voz Workers’ Rights Education Project in Portland, OR.

Osmani enjoys long walks in the forest, hiking, cooking (on limited occasions), going to the movies, listening to cumbias and hip-hop, and watching satirical news.

Guided by Zapatista principles, Osmani believes in centering the leadership of those most affected and targeted by oppression and exploitation so that we may all live in “a world where many worlds fit”.