Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Executive Director, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice - Los Angeles, CA
Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with over 20 years of experience in interfaith and community ministry, community organizing and legislative advocacy. Rev. Salvatierra is the Executive Director of CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), an organization of religious leaders throughout Los Angeles county who come together to support low-wage workers in their struggle for a living wage, health insurance, fair working conditions and a voice in the decisions that affect them. Rev. Salvatierra is also the co-chair of a new statewide alliance of interfaith worker justice groups, CLUE California. She is the author of an essay in Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel.
Areas of Expertise:
• Worker rights and ecomonic justice
• Poverty
• Immigration
Recent articles and interviews:
• SPIN Project: Do Not Defraud the Laborer of their Just Wage: Religious Leaders in the Battle for a Living Wage
• Associated Press: Religious group, grocery clerks to appeal to Safeway CEO's faith
• Journal of Lutheran Ethics: Do Not Steal: A Lutheran Vision of Practice of Economic Justice
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