I come to this moment from a lengthy history of participation in the Left projects of my generation. My parents’ child, I have always been an intellectual first, but I quickly figured out that—despite my commitment to fighting racism and U.S. imperialism in general—unless I was an “affiliated intellectual,” that is, a part of an organization, my work would have no resonance, meaning, or impact. In the early 1970s of my youth, I was a founding member of the socialist-feminist Berkeley/Oakland Women’s Union and member of the Berkeley Radical Psychiatry collective. Thus began my commitment to organization building.

What do I do at this stage? I am looking for the forms of organization that can give birth to women’s liberation. I am currently dedicated to contributing to advances of the international domestic worker women’s movement. I am gratified that I serve on the California Domestic Worker Health and Safety Advisory Committee, mandated by SB321—representing Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network.