Lucia Gómez is the political director of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. In different government, nonprofit, and labor union capacities, her life’s work has been focused on empowering workers and their communities to take action through grassroots organizing, leadership development, and civic engagement. She has extensive knowledge of voting and enfranchisement laws, as well as extensive experience in election administration, electoral campaigns, geographic information systems, decennial census, redistricting, and community organizing. Outside of her role in empowering the labor movement to take political action, she serves on the boards of the New York State Immigrant Action Fund, Make the Road Action, Align NY, Latina Civic Action, and Latina Civic PAC.