MPA Rising Tide Awards Dinner 2016
Maine People's Alliance
Rising Tide Awards Dinner
Wednesday, June 15
Congregation Bet Ha'am
81 Westbrook St, South Portland, Maine 04106
Please join us as we celebrate the work of the past year and honor our awardees!
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Saru Jayaraman
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded ROC in New York, which has organized restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns. She was profiled in the New York Times "Public Lives" section in 2005, and was named one of Crain's "40 Under 40" in 2008, 1010 WINS's "Newsmaker of the Year," and one of New York Magazine's "Influentials" of New York City. Saru co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce, (ME Sharpe, 2005) and authored wo books, Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked.
81 Westbrook St
South Portland, Cumberland, ME 04106
United States
Tickets | $40.00 |