Kim Bobo
Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, the leading national organization that mobilizes religious support for low-wage workers and rebuilds partnerships with the labor movement. Since 1996, the organization has built a network of more than 50 religion-labor groups and 20 workers centers around the country, created the "Labor in the Pulpits" program, started the Seminary Summer program, placing seminary and rabbinical students with unions for internships, and created dozens of congregational resources on economic justice. IWJ is leading a national campaign to challenge wage theft and seeking new ways to collaborate with government agencies to better enforce labor laws.
Previously, Ms. Bobo was a trainer for the Midwest Academy, and Director of Organizing for Bread for the World. She writes the dispatches from the workplace for Religion Dispatch, a new online religious forum, is the co-author of Organizing for Social Change and the author of Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing. Ms. Bobo's new book, Wage Theft in America, was released in November. It is the first and only book to document the wage theft crisis in the nation and proposes practical solutions for addressing it.
