Harvesting Hope: Building Worker Power at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center

Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra is a popular educator and historian. As a former undocumented immigrant and survivor of domestic violence, she is committed to building revolutionary movements. At the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, she used her popular education training to organize workers. She was part of an all-women’s collective that coordinates daily organizational operations and currently serves on the board. In collaboration with the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), she is developing a political education curriculum rooted in history to mobilize domestic workers on a massive scale. In fall 2020, she will begin her position as an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her book manuscript, tentatively titled “Insurgent Butterflies: Gender and Revolution in El Salvador,” documents the feminist praxis that women developed within labor and armed movements during the late twentieth century.