ICE Deportations Affect All of Us

5:45 Social and Committee Updates
6 pm – 7:30 pm Discussion with Q&A
Speakers: Nik Theodore and Leone Bicchieri
Moderator: Jacky Grimshaw
Virtual Meeting - Online Registration Required

Nik Theodore is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, as well as the Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research on economic inequality has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and other media outlets. Prior to joining UIC, he was a researcher for the Chicago Urban League and an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy based at the University of Manchester (UK).

Leone Bicchieri, founder and executive Director of Working Families Solidarity, is the proud son of Mexican and Italian immigrants, Leone has worked for 30 years organizing workers and working families of all backgrounds for economic and racial justice, including farmworkers in the Northwest, poultry processing workers and chicken farmers in the Southeast, meatpacking workers in the Midwest & Plains states, janitors in Midwestern cities, & temp staffing workers in the greater Chicago area. He was national staff with the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride, and also worked as a long-term volunteer in Nicaragua during the Contra War. Leone was recently Executive Director of the Chicago Workers Collaborative, a Chicago-based worker center, where he founded the “Bringing Down Barriers” program to unite African American and Latino temp staffing workers to win more rights at work. Leone was also a Founding Board Member of Raise The Floor, the alliance of eight worker centers in Illinois.