Our Team
Starbucks Worker Committee
The Solidarity Fund Starbucks Worker Committee provides worker-focused advice specific to this Fund on everything from fund disbursement and applicant eligibility, to high-level initiatives and future programs. Its members are current and former worker activists at Starbucks. These workers represent themselves and not the company.
Veronica Gonzalez,
Committee Member
Current Starbucks shift supervisor, member of Starbucks Workers United, based in Los Angeles, CA.
Jaime Prater,
Committee Member
Former Starbucks shift supervisor, based in Claremont, CA.
Angel Krempa,
Committee Member
Former Starbucks shift supervisor, member of Starbucks Workers United, based in Buffalo, NY.
Nikki Taylor,
Committee Member
Former Starbucks shift supervisor, member of Starbucks Workers United, based in Memphis, TN.
Tech Worker Committee
The Solidarity Fund Tech Worker Committee provides worker-focused advice on
everything from fund disbursement and applicant eligibility, to high-level initiatives and future programs. Its members are current and former worker activists and organizers in the tech industry.
Cher Scarlett,
Committee Member
Software Engineer at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Former Apple employee who helped lead the #AppleToo movement. Based in Seattle, WA.Felipe Ventura,
Committee Member
Software Engineer and Community Organizer. Based in Richmond, CA
Irene Knapp,
Committee Chair
Formerly employed at Google as a software
engineer, founding member of the Trans At Google
employee resource group steering committee.
Laurence Berland,
Committee Co-chair
Terminated Google organizer, Based in
San Francisco, CA.
Former Committee Members
Crystal Coleman,
Committee Member
Product Support Manager employed at Google while serving on the committee, Based in Colorado.
Years Of Service: 2021 - 2022
Damien Desfontaines,
Committee Member
Engineer employed at Google while serving on the committee, Based in Europe.
Years Of Service: 2020 - 2022
Chewy Shaw,
Committee Member
Engineer employed at Google while serving on the committee.
Former Vice Chair of AWU, Based in the Bay Area.
Years Of Service: 2020 - 2021
Board Of Directors
Liz Fong-Jones, President
Principal Developer Advocate, honeycomb.io
Vancouver, BC
Michelle Miller, Secretary
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Coworker.org
Brooklyn, NY
Eshanthi Ranasinghe, Treasurer
Principal, Exploration and Future Sensing, Omidyar Network
San Francisco, CA.
Staff
Jess Kutch
Jess is the Executive Director the Solidarity Fund by Coworker, and the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Coworker.org.
Jess has more than 15 years of experience innovating at the intersection of technology and social change, building platforms and digital campaigns to shift power and win change. She is a TED Fellow, an Echoing Green Global Fellow, a J.M.K. Innovation Prize winner, and an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow. She lives with her family in Asheville, NC.
jess@coworkerfund.org
Antonio Aguilera
Antonio is the Director of Worker Resources and Training for both the Solidarity Fund by Coworker and Coworker.org.
He coaches and supports tech workers on accessing networks, skills, and tools to successfully organize for improving working conditions, and ethical practices in the tech industry. Antonio is an innovator at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and worker rights. He helped develop an app for organizing low-income immigrant labor and domestic workers, and he serves on the national board of Social Enterprise Alliance. He lives in San Francisco, CA.
Antonio@coworkerfund.org
Kara Federico
Kara is the Fund Director of the Solidarity Fund by Coworker, and the Director of Operations for Coworker.org.
Kara has spent her career focused in operations, helping organizations develop the necessary infrastructure and systems to realize their vision and facilitate greater impact. Prior to working at the Solidarity Fund and Coworker.org, she served as an Associate Director at Arabella Advisors providing operational, programmatic, financial, and compliance support to a diverse range of projects hosted at New Venture Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Kara@coworkerfund.org
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