Lenita Reason is the Executive Director of the Brazilian Worker Center (BWC) in Boston, an immigrant- and women-led non-profit organization dedicated to defending and advancing immigrants’ labor and human rights in the New England region. Now in her second decade of community and labor organizing, Lenita has been Community Organizer, Office Manager, Building Justice Workers’ Committee Coordinator, and OSHA-Susan Harwood Assistant Chief Trainer and Outreach Coordinator for BWC’s OSHA Training Program. Lenita has considerable experience in state-wide legislative and civic affairs, as well, including co-chairing the Massachusetts state-wide Driving Families Forward Coalition, whose efforts resulted in the 2022 legislative passage of the Work and Family Mobility Act in Massachusetts, and the Tuition Equity Bill. She is Program Director at Massachussetts’s first Family Welcome Center, hosted and staffed by the BWC in Allston, and in 2023 was appointed as a member of Governor Maura Healey’s Advisory Council on Latino Empowerment. Lenita completed a Certificate in Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2018 and has especially strong skills and experience in coordinating community-based, participatory research projects on immigrant labor and community issues, in partnership with local universities and national organizations, such as the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Boston College, UMass Boston, Tufts, Boston University, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
