Workers Defense Project

Leadership & Staff

Greg Casar US House of Representatives for TX District 35; former Austin city councilperson

• Policy Director ('14→?)

José Garza Elected District Attorney for Travis County, Texas; Former Executive Director at the Workers Defense Project; "Soros DA"

• executive director ('16→?)

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez Texas-based policy advocate,  political candidate and political commentator

• Co-founder and Executive Director ('03→'16)

Patricia Zavala

• Position

Marina Roberts Austin, TX based Grant Writer and Socialist; Worker's Defense Project

• Position

Board Members

José “Chito” Vela Austin City Council Member; lawyer

• President of Board

Lizeth Chacon Executive of Workers Defense Project

• Executive Director

Donors

Simmons Foundation

• Donation/Grant · 30,000 USD

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Originally developed as the private philanthropy service of the Rockefeller family, now an independent, nonprofit service

• Donation/Grant

The Ford Family Foundation A private, non-profit foundation located in Roseburg, Oregon.

• Donation/Grant

Annie E. Casey Foundation 13th Largest Foundation, Social Services, UPS Money

• Donation/Grant

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

• Donation/Grant

Marguerite Casey Foundation Foundation created in 2001 with funds from Jim Casey, the founder of United Parcel Service.

• Donation/Grant

General Service Foundation Founded in 1946 by Clifton Musser, son of an original partner in the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co

• Donation/Grant

Heising-Simons Foundation

• Donation/Grant

Child Organizations

Workers Defense Action Fund

• Child Org

Services & Transactions

Construction Safety and Health Inc., an Austin-based nonprofit that performs safety and federal law compliance reviews for industry.

• Service/Transaction

Equal Justice Center a public interest law firm that assists low-income workers in pursuing wage claim

• Service/Transaction

U.S. Department of Labor

• Service/Transaction

ThinkProgress former blog of Center for American Progress

• wrote story about

Miscellaneous Relationships

Center for Labor and a Just Economy Harvard based think tank

• partner

Center for Popular Democracy Nonprofit advocacy group based in Brooklyn, NY

• Affiliation