The Workplace Project, Hempstead, NY.
Representative: Nadia Marin
The Workplace Project was founded in 1992 as non-profit organization in response to the widespread exploitation of immigrant workers, mostly Latinos, in New York. The specific goal of the Workplace Project is to organize immigrant workers to help them fight for better living and working conditions. The victories in social justice that the Workplace Project has achieved have been the product of complete economic, cultural, and political participation of those workers in the communities in which they live.
Nadia Marin is the Executive Director of the Workplace Project and has headed up its worker cooperative efforts among Central American immigrant domestic workers and gardeners. Nadia is one of six recipients of the annual Gloria Steinem Award for 2001.