Board of Directors

Cynthia Domingo, President
Ms. Domingo is currently the Legislative Aide for a council member of Martin Luther King County, the 13th largest county in the U.S. Over the last 30 years, Ms. Domingo has been involved in various international and domestic human rights issues.

From 1981 - 1990, Ms. Domingo was National Coordinator for the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes and led the movement for justice in the Domingo and Viernes case resulting in a $15 million judgement in federal court against former Philippine President Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos for their roles in the murders.

Ms. Domingo has also been a long time board member of the N.W. Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO), an organization led by people of color and women. While LELO originally focused on using the legal system to advance the various progressive causes of the peoples' movement, LELO now has a number of projects that enables workers to take power in the workplace and communities, internationally and locally.

Ms. Domingo is a member of the Northwest Social Forum Planning Committee. Ms. Domingo is married and has two children.

Rosalinda Guillen, Member

Rosalinda, the oldest of eight, was born in Texas, spent her first decade in Mexico and migrated with her family to LaConner in Skagit County in Washington State in 1960, where she picked strawberries and other crops starting at the age of ten. As a young married mother at the age of
17, she would come to follow the migrant path as a farm worker for another eight years in the Pacific Northwest. Past work includes Operations Officer for Data Processing operations for Skagit State Bank, Community Organizer for the Rainbow Coalition, lead organizer for the UFW in the Chateau Ste. Michelle union organizing campaign in Sunnyside, WA, National Vice President of Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, managed the union’s political and legislative agenda in California with staff based in Los Angeles, Salinas, Sacramento and Delano and most recently Retreat Coordinator for Positive Futures Network.

Currently, Rosalinda is the Executive Director for Community to Community Development, a place based grassroots non-profit organization she co-founded with a group of fellow women activists – housing the Food Justice Alliance, Mujeres para un Pueblo Sano, Small Potatoes and the Women’s Alliance. Member of the Planning Committee for the US Social Forum and the NW Social Forum , member of the coordinating Committee to form the King County Food Policy Council,  participant member of the international Food Lab with the Kellogg Foundation working to envision and pilot successful sustainable food supply chains, and serves as a board member for the Indigenous Women’s Network. She is also Chair of the Affirmative Action Committee for the Whatcom County Democrats and Co-Chair of the Whatcom County Rainbow Coalition.
 

Bob Hasegawa, Member
Bob has been a union organizer and social justice activist for over 25 years. Bob was elected in November 2004 to the Washington State House of Representatives for the 11th District. As State organizer for Teamsters for a Democratic Union(TDU), Bob fought to reform the Teamsters union behind the principles of democratic unionism. He worked his way up through the ranks to become the leader of the largest truck drivers local union in the Pacific Northwest. He successfully transformed Teamsters Local 174 into a dynamic, fighting organization for its membership.

Sharon Maeda, Secretary
Sharon learned about racial justice issues as a young child. Her uncle had spent much of WWII in federal prison because, as an attorney, he challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 that put 120,000 people of Japanese descent into American concentration camps and took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Maeda's career in education and communication has always been focused on providing access and information to diverse cultures. From being executive director for Pacifica Radio to serving in the Clinton Administration or the global mission board of the United Methodist Church, she has always felt that her responsibility was to working for equality and justice. As a member of the King County Commission on Governance in 2003 – 2004, she led efforts to change the criminal justice budget, which has been focused on incarcerating young men of color at a cost of 68% of the general budget.