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Jessica Youseffi
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
Jessica Youseffi is a British expat residing in Los Angeles for the past 5 years. She is now a full-time community organizer with CLUE LA working to support the development of the Westside Subway Extension, which will provide vital mass transit in the traffic-choked Westside, and create thousands of good jobs. She graduated in Fall ’11 from the University of Southern California, where she studied Print and Digital Journalism and Communication Design. Jessica began her work at CLUE two years ago as an intern on the Hilton LAX campaign. That summer she learned to value community organizing as an effective process of social change. She also witnessed the powerful force of faith-based organizing and the role religious leaders can play in upholding moral values to mobilize communities. Jessica’s CLUE experience inspired her desire to pursue rabbinical school, where she can further work in faith-based organizing for social justice. She sees her Jewish and social justice values as inextricably intertwined. The biblical notion that all humans are created in the image of God grounds her belief in the equality, uniqueness and ultimate worth of every individual, and she views being in a covenant with God as a responsibility to serve as agents of justice.
Info about CLUE
CLUE LA, founded in 1996, is one of the oldest interfaith worker justice organizations in the country. CLUE LA’s mission is to bring together clergy and lay leaders of all faiths to join low-wage workers in their struggles for justice.
Its many accomplishments began with key support for the successful Los Angeles’s 1997 Living Wage campaign.
CLUE LA took a leadership role in the battle to keep Wal-Mart out of Inglewood; played a central role in the passage of statewide legislation increasing funding for staffing for nursing homes; provided strategic support for striking grocery workers that brought the owner of Safeway back to the bargaining table; created dramatic actions in support of hotel workers in Santa Monica and Los Angeles that were crucial to victory; and played an important role in the public policy and corporate campaigns of healthcare workers and janitors.
CLUE LA has over 600 religious leaders and 1200 lay people active in its work, including a very broad range of ethnic and denominational constituencies, including Christian Evangelicals, Muslim leaders and mosques, all of the Jewish denominations, historic African-American churches, Hispanic Pentecostals, and Korean congregations.
More Information
If you are interested in Jessica's campaign you can find more information here.
You can find more information on CLUE LA here.
And, if you are interested in applying for a summer internship, you can find more information here.
Info about CLUE
CLUE LA, founded in 1996, is one of the oldest interfaith worker justice organizations in the country. CLUE LA’s mission is to bring together clergy and lay leaders of all faiths to join low-wage workers in their struggles for justice.
Its many accomplishments began with key support for the successful Los Angeles’s 1997 Living Wage campaign.
CLUE LA took a leadership role in the battle to keep Wal-Mart out of Inglewood; played a central role in the passage of statewide legislation increasing funding for staffing for nursing homes; provided strategic support for striking grocery workers that brought the owner of Safeway back to the bargaining table; created dramatic actions in support of hotel workers in Santa Monica and Los Angeles that were crucial to victory; and played an important role in the public policy and corporate campaigns of healthcare workers and janitors.
CLUE LA has over 600 religious leaders and 1200 lay people active in its work, including a very broad range of ethnic and denominational constituencies, including Christian Evangelicals, Muslim leaders and mosques, all of the Jewish denominations, historic African-American churches, Hispanic Pentecostals, and Korean congregations.
More Information
If you are interested in Jessica's campaign you can find more information here.
You can find more information on CLUE LA here.
And, if you are interested in applying for a summer internship, you can find more information here.