Oral Histories

Ericka Gomez-Tejeda

   March 31, 2025

   

Lead Organizer, Bronx and Brooklyn, NY, 1996-1999; Issue Campaign Director, Working Families Party, New York, 1999-2002

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1. March 31, 0025 Interviewed by Francine Streich

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Erika Gomez-Tejeda worked with ACORN in New York starting in 1996. She was a lead organizer in the Bronx, and set up a training program. She explains that she set up the training program because her training wasn’t great. She was an organizer in college and a professor steered her towards ACORN or WFP. She did tenant organizing and is most proud of the living wage campaigns she ran and won. She speaks a lot about the great ACORN model and how she used it in every organization she went to after. She currently works in Florida on immigrants rights issues.