Kofi Hunt
Kofi (Clive) Hunt is Florida activist. Political Director at Fight for 15 Florida. Former Community Organizer at Service Employee International Union - Florida.
He is a new digital organizer with the Worker Justice team of Center for Popular Democracy. Kofi resides in Saint Petersburg, Florida and has a back group community and political organizing for labor organizations. He began working as an organizer in 2012 for SEIU’s Swing Districts campaign as part of the Fight for Fair Economy. Since then, he’s worked for the Florida AFL-CIO on their Labor 2014 program. His last work experience was with the Fight for 15 in Florida as a community political organizer since 2015. Kofi worked with them until recently where he helped pass Amendment 2 on the 2020 ballot, setting Florida on a path to $15 an hour.
Florida for $15
Kofi Hunt, a co-chair of the Pinellas Democratic Socialists of America, says the Florida for $15 campaign was unapologetically pro-worker in its messaging and spoke directly to the struggles of Florida’s working class. Hunt argues that the state’s multiracial working-class base more broadly didn’t get a staunch pro-worker message from either Trump or Biden, but concedes that the latter offered more of a worker-friendly platform. But Hunt and others involved in the Florida for $15 coalition argue Biden’s most pro-worker policies — such as universal pre-Kindergarten and a federal minimum wage boost — didn’t get the kind of limelight that could have benefitted him more on the campaign trail in Florida.
“The presidential election was largely about defeating Trump and not what Joe Biden would do for working people,” says Richie Floyd, a Pinellas DSA organizer and labor activist who contributed to Florida for $15 efforts. “During trips to Florida, Biden played ‘Despacito’ on his phone and pandered to right-wing voters in Miami. This strategy completely failed as we can see from the results out of Miami-Dade.”[1]
Pinellas DSA
Pinellas Democratic Socialists of America April 21 2019:
Our social media coordinator Kofi Hunt spent the morning speaking to parishioners at the Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater about the Green New Deal. If you would like someone to come to your group and speak about the Green New Deal, feel free to message us and we'll get something set up.
Photo Credit: Jessie Forcan.
Organize Florida - Tampa Bay
Tim Heberlein May 25, 2018:
SWAG Tampa Bay! — with Ashley Green, Kofi Hunt, Jennie A. Figueroa, Robert Gibson and Nanci Palacios Godinez at Organize Florida - Tampa Bay.
CAIR connection
Tim Heberlein December 3, 2016 ·
Squad at the CAIR Annual Banquet. Glad to support the amazing work. — with Debbie King, Kofi Hunt, Ashley Whitney, Ayele B. Hunt and Caitlin Cook at Embassy Suites by Hilton Tampa - USF/Near Busch Gardens.
"Education in The Movement"
2646 Central Ave, St. Petersburg Saturday 6 February 2016, organized by Bay Area Dream Defenders.
- We are the sons and daughters of slaves and farm-workers. We are Dreamers and the products of a generation that had a Dream. We are 'We Shall Overcome' and 'Si se puede!' We are Phoenix and Selma, the Freedom Rides & the Trail of Dreams, Suffrage & Solidarity.
- Come learn about the history of educational justice in St. Petersburg, the civil rights legend Enoch Davis, the local educational crisis in the black community, and the work of the Dream Defenders across the state.
Those indicating attendance on Wherevent included Deborah Anderson, Tristan Lear, Colleen Segers, Ahmad Abuznaid, Jon Tallon, Isha Haley, Sam Bowden, Devan Cheaves, John Muhammad, Abuela Loba, Monica Irene McGrellis, Ibheji Ogundo, Anthony Marcantonio, Eshai Fuller, Chardonnay Ndegeocello Singleton, Maquet Robinson, Jayson James, JerJuan Green, Angela Brown, Ashley Green, Jerry Long, Jillian Corey, Bruce Nissen, Kofi Hunt, Jasmen Rogers, Tasha Lowe, Rakiya Burton, Leah McRae, Theresa Jones, Daphne Carter, Bleu Rainer, Kenny Alexander, Caprice Johnson, Maria Jose, Ayaba McKenzie, Brittany Varner].[2]