Kim Bobo
Founder, Interfaith Worker Justice - Chicago, IL
Kim Bobo is Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a national organization, based in Chicago, that educates, organizes and mobilizes the religious community to improve wages, benefits and conditions for workers. Bobo was previously Director of Organizing for Bread for the World, a nationwide Christian movement that advocates for the world's poor and hungry. She is also the author of Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing, and co-author of the best-selling organizing manual in the country, Organizing for Social Change. Bobo is the Choir Director at Good News Community Church in Chicago.
Areas of Expertise:
• Immigration
• Worker rights and the minimum wage
• Partnerships between faith and labor communities
Recent articles:
• Associate Press: Group Sues Labor Department for Workers' Names
• Chicago Tribune: Raising minimum wage key to nation's families
• San Francisco Chronicle: Pushing poverty into 'moral-values' debate: Some religious leaders trying to broaden discussion beyond abortion and marriage
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