Gihan Perera is co-founder and Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center. Gihan is also one of the co-founders of the Right to the City – a national alliance of over 30 grassroots organizations, legal service providers, academics and policy groups seeking alternatives to gentrification and urban displacement of poor and working class communities of color. He is a nationally recognized progressive movement leader, organizer, and strategist. He frequently speaks at conferences and on the radio, and he has been published in both local and national media outlets. Gihan sits on the Advisory Committee of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, and the Board of Directors of MWC, Gihan worked in the labor movement as a lead organizer throughout the South with ACTWO and as the recruitment director for the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute.
