CANVASS MANAGER

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LEAD CHAPTER ORGANIZER

POLICY CAMPAIGNS ORGANIZER

POLICY AND RESEARCH COORDINATOR

NEW ORLEANS PARENT UNION ORGANIZER

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TRAINING COORDINATOR

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DOLLAR STORE WORKER ORGANIZER

NEW ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON PARISH ECONOMIC JUSTICE ORGANIZER

SENIOR LEAD LABOR ORGANIZER

BATON ROUGE CHAPTER ORGANIZER

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

DOLLAR STORE WORKER ORGANIZER

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CLIMATE JUSTICE ORGANIZER

BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC JUSTICE ORGANIZER

JEFFERSON PARISH ECONOMIC JUSTICE ORGANIZER

NEW ORLEANS ECONOMIC JUSTICE ORGANIZER

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New Orleans Chapter Organizer

Maria Harmon is from Lake Charles, LA. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Step Up Louisiana. She leads Step Up's education justice and climate justice work and lives in Baton Rouge. Maria has been organizing since the age of 16 with the Junior Daughters of the Knights of Peter Claver. She has a Master's Degree in Public Administration and a bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Southern University A&M College of Baton Rouge, LA. During her time at Southern, Maria built a network of over 2,000 students to become civically engaged while working with the Louisiana Democratic Party. She helped start Democracy Prep Public School of Baton Rouge by enrolling 192 students for their first school year in 2015-2016. She has also worked for the Micah Project, a federation of the PICO National Network/Faith In Action, in 2016 as a community organizer working in education and civic engagement. 

Ben Zucker is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Step Up Louisiana and leads economic justice, worker power, and organizer in training initiatives. Ben has over 15 years labor, community, and student organizing experience and spent formative years on the Fight for $15 and a Union campaign organizing fast food workers. At Step Up, Ben supports Dollar Store workers who have won the Dollar General workplace safety shareholder's resolution, PPE and hazard pay, and wage increases. On the policy front, Ben has been proud to help Step Up spearhead the New Orleans Workers Bill of Rights, the Fair Chance Hiring Act, a $15 minimum wage for New Orleans city and city contract employees, and a $28 increase in Louisiana’s weekly unemployment among other victories. Ben graduated from Tulane University and loves to barbecue. He supports the Louisiana Organizer of the Month series. Ben lives in New Orleans with his brilliant wife Meaghan, two-year-old twins Will and Leo, and fluffy dog Luna.