Luis Robledo (he/him) is JMA’s Senior Organizer in the South, based in Birmingham, Alabama. His sole focus in the South is building worker power through strategic campaigns.
Before coming to JMA, Luis worked with grassroots groups in the labor and immigration movements on various campaigns ranging from labor organizing, wage theft, immigrants rights organizing, human and civil rights, tenant’s rights organizing, language justice, coalition building, and policy advocacy. He was one of the main organizers not the One Family, One Alabama campaign to repeal HB56 in 2011, at the time the most anti-immigrant law in the country. He effectively lead a wild cat strike at a former employer who threatened delaying wages.
His area of work is in the Alabama black belt, where the focus on historical, place-based organizing merges at the intersection labor, immigration, incarcerated, and environmental rights.
Luis is a Spanish interpreter and translator by trade and practices simultaneous interpretation at conferences and events.