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About Us

Toya, Fouts, and Fernando met in 2012 while working with the New  Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice, an organization dedicated to  building multiracial worker power after Katrina. Toya and Fernando  worked as staff organizers and Fouts as a volunteer. As an organizer,  Toya led multiple campaigns that involved canvassing, engaging residents  in underrepresented neighborhoods, weekly membership meetings, direct  actions, press conferences, and meetings with stakeholders and  government officials. Fernando played a similar role as Toya at the  Workers Center, working with documented and undocumented reconstruction  workers and asylum seekers to fight for workers’ rights and against  deportations. Through this organizing work, we have developed  relationships with Black and immigrant street vendors across the city.

HISTORY AND MISSION

Toya Lovevolution Ex

who was born, raised, and still lives in New Orleans, serves as organizing director. Toya currently organizes Project Hustle, a project geared towards uniting Black and Indigenous hustlers to use our collective wisdom, practices and potential to heal, build equity, promote the decriminalization of our survival and use popular education to build and develop an understanding of worker cooperatives and collectives as an alternative. Toya received even more capacity to move Project Hustle in 2020 when they were selected to be an Open Society Soros Justice Fellow. 

Sarah Fouts

 an  assistant professor in American Studies at UMBC and director of the  Public Humanities program, serves as the project director. Fouts is  currently writing an ethnographic book project set in post-Katrina New  Orleans. Her research areas are food, labor, and migration.

Fernando López

a Mexican-born cultural documentarian, serves as creative  director. Fernando has helped organize and curate spaces dedicated to  BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities drawing in hundreds of participants and  facilitating the interaction between diverse groups of people and  cultures.

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