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Nikki Brown-Booker

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Program Officer

Nikki Brown-Booker is the Program Officer for the Disability Inclusion Fund at Borealis Philanthropy.

As a person with a disability and a biracial woman, she has devoted her work to advancing rights at the intersection of disability justice and racial justice. The daughter of a domestic worker who immigrated from the Philippines and a professional chef and a long-term SEIU member, Nikki was taught from a young age that justice is a human right. Nikki was the Executive Director for Easy Does It Emergency Services, a nonprofit that provides emergency services for people with disabilities and seniors in Berkeley, California. She has a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Nikki continues to organize with Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, and helped pass the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

Listen to her full length one-on-one interview on Patreon.com/TajaLindley
Interview length: 00:56:24

Aug. 17, 2022

Domestic Workers Part 2: Community Organizing Strategies & Contexts Historically & Today

We're continuing our conversation about domestic labor with a deep dive into the historical and current practice of organizing domestic workers for dignity and respect including: the role of storytelling in building collecti...
Aug. 3, 2022

Domestic Workers Part 1: The Labor That Makes All Other Work Possible

“I remembered reminding myself that I would never work for wealthy families again.” ~ Allison Julien Taking care of children, disabled folks, the elderly, and the home is important work, but it doesn’t always get the respect ...
July 6, 2022

Back to Work: Examining Labor Narratives During Welfare Reform & the Pandemic

Welfare reform in the 90’s and the recent pandemic may seem like radically different moments in history but they share a few things in common, namely back to work labor narratives that: are overly reliant on frameworks of per...