Santra Denis

A South Florida native, Santra Denis is the Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center, a power-building, member-led organization, organizing working-class care workers, tenants, women, and families for the rights, respect, and resources that we need and deserve. Miami Workers Center founded in 1999, has a legacy of fighting against the demolition of public housing, the displacement of working-class people, and for equitable wages, safer working conditions and treatment, and benefits for all workers. In 2020, Miami Workers Center members won public benefits and unemployment assistance for survivors of domestic violence and continue to advocate for Miami-Dade County’s Wage Theft Program, including certification of U/T Visa, including screening for victims of labor trafficking. Most recently, in 2022, Tenants and organizers with the Miami Workers Center won a Tenants Bill of Rights and $2.9 million for Eviction Diversion in 2023. Ms. Denis has developed her own leadership as a feminist, anti-classist, and anti-racist community organizer and is committed to centering the leadership of Black and Immigrant working-class people. Ms. Denis has been very active in her community, founding Avanse Ansanm, an organization that preserves culture and builds economic and political power in South Florida’s Haitian-American communities. She graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s in Health Science and from Florida International University with a Master of Public Health in Policy and Management. Ms. Denis is a lover of all people, and her life’s mission is to dismantle systems of oppression for the liberation of all people.