our Team

Meet the Team

  • Alexa Malishchak

  • Carly Kirchen

  • Tess Williams

  • Olinda Grimley

  • Sana Pournasiri

  • Sara Sagaii

  • Maria Echeverria

  • Amril Hamer

  • Cruz Phillips

  • Madelaine Sommers

Harley Augustino, Executive & Training Director


With 25 years of experience as a labor, tenant, student, and community organizer, Harley Augustino has held various pivotal roles including non-profit Executive Director, Organizer Trainer, Development Director, Union Organizing Director, Campaign Manager, and Elected Official. His journey in organizing has been profoundly shaped by training from Dolores Huerta and other leaders from the United Farm Workers, as well as his 14 years with the hotel workers union UNITE HERE, and the countless organizers he has had the privilege to train over the years.

Currently, Harley serves as the Executive Director for Base Building for Power, an organization dedicated to training the next generation of racial and economic justice organizers. Over the past three years, they have successfully trained over 300 organizers across the US and Canada. As President of Volunteer Recruitment Strategies, he enhances the capacity of labor and community organizations in the US and Canada through comprehensive training and coaching support.

Harley lives in Portland, OR, with his husband and bearded dragon, and moonlights as a jazz saxophone musician.

Advisors

  • Camila Chavez

    Executive Director, Dolores Huerta Foundation (2003 -current)

    Board Chair, California Calls

    Board Chair, Central Valley Partnership

    Board Member, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Advocates

  • Cruz Phillips

    Director of Campbell Soup Boycott, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (1981-1986)

    Central Valley Community Organizing Director, United Farm Workers (1998-2003)

    Board Member, Dolores Huerta Foundation (Current)

  • Dolores Huerta

    Co-Founder, United Farm Workers

    President, Dolores Huerta Foundation

  • Hazel Davalos

    Community Organizer, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (2011-2015)

    Co-Executive Director, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (2015-current)

  • Henry Izumizaki

    Retired

    Director of Programs, The Russel Family Foundation (2006-2020)

  • Hun Taing

    Organizing Director, SEIU (2000-2010)

    Sierra Club, Director of Organizational Effectiveness (current)

  • Joey Williams

    Clergy Leader & Organizer, Faith in Action-Kern County (2007-2014)

    Executive/Chapter Director, Faith In The Valley Kern (2015-2018)

    Field Director, PICO CA (2018-2021)

    Director of Organizing, California Native Vote Project (current)

  • Kaylah Marin

    Media and Production Manager, KAJE

    Media Manager, Social and Economic Justice Film Festival

    Music Ambassador, Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival

  • Larry Frank

    Organizer, UFW, ACTWU, CWA (1977-1982)

    Founding Director and Development Director., Jobs with Peace (1982-1988)

    Deputy Mayor, LA (2005-2013)

    Staff Director, UCLA Labor Center (2000-2005) and Development (2020-present)

  • Libby Davies

    Vancouver City Councilor (1982-1993)

    Member of Parliament Vancouver East (1997-2015)