Denise Perry

Denise has more than 35 years of labor and community organizing, dedicated to developing strong grassroots leaders, democratic organizations, and progressive social movements. She has been a labor union organizer and trainer.  Internationally she worked with a team to develop the Women's Global Equity Project, which took her throughout Africa and the Caribbean to train and work with women labor activists.  She co-founded Power U Center for Social Change, rooted in Miami’s historically Black community of Overtown. She has served on a variety of Boards. Today she is the Director and co-Founder of Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD) which is developing leadership for transformative organizing amongst Black organizers across the country.