Darlene Lombos

Darlene started with CLU in 2006 as a Senior Organizer and then became our Organizing Director before becoming a Co-Director of the organization in 2008. Darlene has been organizing around various community issues since 1996, including police accountability and home daycare justice at Direct Action for Rights and Equality in Providence, RI as well as transportation equity, gentrification and displacement, and education reform at Sisters in Action for Power in Portland, OR. Darlene spent 2005 volunteering for GABRIELA in the Philippines and for the MST (Landless Workers Movement) in Brazil. She brings thirteen years' experience in community and youth organizing, leadership development and coalition-building to this work. Darlene is Filipina and speaks Tagalog and Portuguese.