Grassroots Law and Organizing for Workers (GLOW)

Sheila Maddali, Executive Director

Economic Mobility

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Grassroots Law and Organizing for Workers (GLOW) is a racial and economic justice organization dedicated to shifting the balance of power towards greater equity in our economy and society by leveraging legal strategies and resources to build worker power.

Year Founded: 2019

Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW) is a racial and economic justice organization dedicated to shifting the balance of power towards greater equity in our economy and society by leveraging legal strategies and resources to build worker power. They do this by working in deep partnership with base-building organizations. Together, they empower systematically marginalized people to take collective action, challenge predatory and exploitative working conditions, and advance policies that build worker power and create long-term systemic change.

GLOW is dedicated to leveraging legal resources to enhance the capacity and sustainability of the low-wage worker movement through community-focused lawyering, worker-center support, and strategic litigation.

GLOW was formerly known as National Legal Advocacy Network (NLAN) and was a fiscally sponsored project of the National Employment Law Project (NELP) from 2019 to 2023. In the past four years, they reached over 65,000 low-wage workers, engaged in litigation impacting over 6,000 low-wage workers, put approximately $10 million back into the hands of low-wage workers and their communities, and provided technical support for over 30 organizing campaigns.

Sheila Maddali

Executive Director

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