Kathy Andrade

A lifelong activist and leader in the labor movement, she first worked as a garment worker and organizer in Miami and New York after arriving from El Salvador in the 1950s. She was the Director of the Department of Education for Local 23-25 (ILGWU), where she developed a wide range of educational and cultural programs in many languages for the mostly immigrant membership. She has always been an active participant and officer in the Hispanic Labor Committee and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement.