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'''Meizhu Lui''' is the Director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative of the [[Insight Center for Community Economic Development]], a national non-profit organization ''dedicated to building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities.''<ref>http://www.makingmoneymakechange.org/keynote.php</ref> She describes herself as a “''professional troublemaker!''” She became a single mother when her son was 7, and took a food service worker job at Boston City Hospital first out of necessity, but stayed on by choice. | '''Meizhu Lui''' is the Director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative of the [[Insight Center for Community Economic Development]], a national non-profit organization ''dedicated to building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities.''<ref>http://www.makingmoneymakechange.org/keynote.php</ref> She describes herself as a “''professional troublemaker!''” She became a single mother when her son was 7, and took a food service worker job at Boston City Hospital first out of necessity, but stayed on by choice. | ||
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Revision as of 22:17, 11 December 2014
Template:TOCnestleft Meizhu Lui is the Director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, a national non-profit organization dedicated to building economic health and opportunity in vulnerable communities.[1] She describes herself as a “professional troublemaker!” She became a single mother when her son was 7, and took a food service worker job at Boston City Hospital first out of necessity, but stayed on by choice.
She now lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
CoC National Conference endorser
In 1992 Meizhu Lui, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Boston, endorsed the Committees of Correspondence national conference Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s held at Berkeley California July 17-19.[2]
Activism
Meizhu Lui was an AFSCME activist for fifteen years and became the first Asian to become the elected President of a local union in Massachusetts.[3] At Health Care for All Massachusetts, she organized to challenge local hospitals to do more for low-income community residents, and helped win the first hospital Community Benefits Guidelines in the country.
As the Executive Director of the national organization United for a Fair Economy, she brought public attention to the racial aspect of the economic divide, and to the negative consequences racial inequality has on our economy as a whole.
Her work for racial and gender equality has been recognized by numerous organizations including the Boston Women’s Fund, the Women's Law Caucus of the New England School of Law, the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, the Labor Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the Union of Minority Neighborhoods.
She is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization that works for a united left.
Achievements
Meizhu Lui is a Trustee of the Hyams Foundation, and was selected for the 2007 Barr Fellows Program that honors the contributions of the most gifted and experienced leaders in the Boston area.[4]
UFE report
In 2004 Racial inequities in unemployment, family income, imprisonment, average wealth and infant mortality are actually worse than when Dr. King was killed, according to a report by United for a Fair Economy.
"The State of the Dream: Enduring Disparities in Black and White," was written by Dedrick Muhammad, Attieno Davis, Meizhu Lui and Betsy Leondar-Wright.
Meizhu Lui served on the Center for American Progress National Initiative to End Poverty. Her articles have appeared in the Wealth Inequality Reader, published by Dollars & Sense in 2004, Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences, The New Press, 2005, and 10 Excellent Reasons to Pay Your Taxes, The New Press, 2008. She is a co-author of The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide, The New Press, 2006.
"Inequality Matters"
In 2004 United for a Fair Economy, a Boston "economic justice think tank", co-sponsored a national conference on inequality. Some of the conference papers were published as "Inequality Matters: the Growing Economic Divide in America", which also included suggested public policies to counteract it. Among the contributors were Betsy Leondar-Wright, William Greider, Meizhu Lui, Bob Kuttner and Christopher Jencks.[5]
How Class Works
The "How Class Works - 2008" conference held at Stony Brook, New York, June 5 - 7, 2008, Center for Study of Working Class Life, proposed speakers list included: Sam Anderson, Catherine-Mercedes Brillantes Judge, Pedro Caban, Fuat Ercan, Claudia Fegan, Bill Fletcher Jr, Tami Gold, Elizabeth Hoffman, Sara Jarayaman, Stathis Kouvelakis, Sherry Linkon, Meizhu Lui, Manning Marable, Jack Metzgar, Nelson Motto, Manny Ness, Bertell Ollman, Jeff Perry, Catherine Pouzoulet, Dave Roediger, Andrew Ross, John Russo, Vinny Tirelli, Michelle Tokarczyk, Richard Trumka and Joe Wilson.
Conference organiser was Michael Zweig Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of Economics State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.[6]
Center for Labor Renewal
In 2009 Meizhu Lui was listed as an endorser of the Center for Labor Renewal[7].
References
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