Pablo Alvarado

As National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s (NDLON) Executive Director, Pablo Alvarado works closely with the Network’s 41 member organizations to expand and strengthen their organizing work, represent the day laborer community at public forums, and to give the National Network a public voice. His work, in promoting and defending the civil, labor and human rights of day laborers has lead to the creation of a national grassroots movement of day laborers in 17 states. Before becoming NDLON’s Executive Director, he served as the Lead Project Coordinator for the Day Laborer Program at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. Under Mr. Alvarado’s guidance as Lead Coordinator, CHIRLA’s Day Labor Program gained national recognition as providing quality organizing models and solidified the organizing efforts of day laborers in Los Angeles. Before this, Mr. Alvarado was a coordinator for the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA) where he developed and implemented literacy programs for the immigrant community. Mr. Alvarado is the recipient of the Next Generation Leadership Fellowship through the Rockefeller Foundation and was also recognized by the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for A Changing World program and in 2005 was named one of TIME Magazine’s 25 most influential Latinos in the United States.