Centering Black Voices in Media: Interview with Lola Smallwood Cuevas

KSPC 88.7FM

Lola Smallwood Cuevas is a project director at the UCLA Labor Center an an expert on unions, employment discrimination and the black working-class, specifically in Los Angeles. She directs the Los Angeles Black Worker Center, a project of the UCLA Labor Center which is the first worker center in California focused on solving the Black job crisis. The BWC aims to build power among black workers to create greater access to quality jobs, address employment discrimination, and transform industries that employ black workers. Smallwood Cuevas previously served as the political and community coordinator for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877 and she has helped build a dynamic Black community partnership with a largely immigrant union. She's co-authored the Labor Center's publication, Women's Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement, and wrote a chapter in the 2010 book Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities.

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