Tho Thi Do
Tho Thi Do has worked for many years as a community organizer, activist and labor organizer. She is the General Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights, and Diversity for UNITE HERE.[1] Thi Do arrived in the United States from Vietnam in 1975 and graduated from High School in San Francisco in 1978. She soon began volunteering with the Vietnamese Youth Development Center, focusing on placement of youth in summer jobs. She has a 20yr old son and lives in San Francisco, California.[2]
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union
Since 1989 Thi Do has worked for Local #2, HERE, first as an organizer and now as Secretary-Treasurer. She was recently elected as a Vice-President on the HERE International Union Executive Board.[2]
Asian Advocacy
Tho continues to be very active in the Southeast Asian community in San Francisco. She is the Chair of the Southeast Asian Community Center in San Francisco which began as an advocacy and social services center and is evolving to encompass voter rights education, forums on political issues, and is in the early planning stage to develop their existing building into a community center. Tho is also on the Board of Directors of the Vietnamese Youth Development Center which is focusing on youth employment as well as educating and developing new youth leadership in the Southeast Asian community.[2]
UC Berkeley Labor Center
In 2009 Tho Thi Do of UNITE HERE Local 2 served on the advisory board of UC Berkeley Labor Center.[3]
UNITE HERE
On June 30, 2009 Tho Do was elected to the position of General Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights, and Diversity for UNITE HERE.[4]
The Organizers' Forum
As at Jan 28, 2010 Tho Thi Do was on the Board of Directors of The Organizers' Forum, a group with the mission of strengthening grassroots organizations by increasing capacity and stability of their democratic structures, to link organizing networks, and to improve on the skills and strategies employed by both community and labor organizers.[5]
Social Policy
As at Jan. 29, 2010 the Social Policy Organizers' Forum Board included:[6]
Deepak Bhargava, John Calkins, Tho Thi Do, Mary Gonzales, Ken Johnson, Michael Kieschnick, Drummond Pike, Mark Splain, Andy Stern, Pat Sweeney, Mary Rowles, John Hoyt, Gustavo Torres.