Executive Director

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Executive Director	Ms. Cecilia Prado
E-mail	cecilia@workersdignity.org
Term Start	December 2019
Cecilia's Experience: Cecilia is a big picture thinker who approaches problems with an interdisciplinary lens. Before joining Workers' Dignity, she led the Public Education efforts at Sanctuary in the Streets, a volunteer network with over 3000 members offering rapid response services and campaign support for the Pioneer Valley Workers Center (PVWC), a James Beard Leadership Award winning worker center that builds power among farm and restaurant workers in Western Massachusetts. Cecilia was a strategist in the PVWC campaign to pass the Work and Family Mobility Act, a bill to allow undocumented immigrants to apply for Massachusetts driver's licenses. The campaign moved 150 businesses, two mayors and one Chamber of Commerce to publicly endorse the bill. In August 2019, Cecilia joined the rapid response mobilization to Mississippi after the massive ICE raids on poultry plants. She helped coordinate emerging immigrant-centered community groups in towns directly impacted by ICE violence. Her passion for immigrant and worker rights surged from her own experience as a Mexican immigrant and from her deep ties to her community. In the past, she has worked as an educator, interpreter and translator. As an Amherst College researcher in the sciences, she had participated in initiatives to improve science education and communication at UMass Amherst, Amherst College, and Yale University. In the first month she started, she helped push Workers' Dignity over the top in our $40,000 end-of-year fund drive in December, has held several dozen one-on-one meetings with members, and has stepped into our Commercial Construction Worker Organizing Campaign as lead organizer and strategist. Since March 2020, Cecilia has facilitated membership and staff's organizing response to the tornadoes and the pandemic. Amidst ongoing public health and economic crises, she has held biweekly worker organizing committee meetings and more doubled the size of our membership.

Staff

Full Time Staff	7
Part Time Staff	0
Volunteers	250
Contractors	1
Retention Rate	100%

Plans & Policies

Does your organization have a Fundraising Plan?	Yes
Does your organization have a Strategic Plan?	Under Development
Years Strategic Plan Considers	4
When was the Strategic Plan adopted?
Does your organization have a Management Succession Plan?	Yes
Does your organization have a Policy and Procedure Plan?	Yes
Does the organization have a Nondiscrimination Policy?	Yes
Does the organization have a Whistle Blower Policy?	Yes
Does the organization have a Document Destruction Policy?	Yes

Evaluation

Is there a formal evaluation for...		Frequency (if applicable)
CEO/Executive Director	Yes	Annually
Senior Management	Yes	Semi-Annually
Non-Management	Yes	Semi-Annually

Affiliations

Affiliation	Year
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition	2010

Awards

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Award / Recognition	Organization	Year
Emerging Youth Leader - Brenda Perez	Tennessee Alliance for Progress	2014
Faith Works Award - Mario Mercado	Interfaith Worker Justice	2015
Long Haul Award - Mariana Lopez	Tennessee Alliance for Progress	2012
Southern Regional Conference Recognition	National Lawyers Guild	2013