Lucia Gomez

Lucia Gomez is the Political Director of the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO and a proud union member of LiUNA Local 78. In different government, non-profit, and labor union capacities, her life’s work has been around empowering workers and their communities to take action through grassroots organizing, leadership development, and civic engagement. When she isn’t running our Political and Electoral operations, she enjoys analyzing Census data and drawing political maps. Lucia has a BA from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and is currently getting her Masters in Labor Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is also a graduate of the Cornell University/NYS AFL-CIO Union Leadership Institute, the Hispanic Federation/Baruch College—Leadership Institute, and the Coro Immigrant Civic Leadership Program. She serves on the Boards of the NYS Immigrant Action Fund, Make the Road Action, Align, the Immigrant Integration Institute at Rockefeller Institute of Government at SUNY, Labor Arts, Latina Civic Action, and Latina Civic Fund.