Gilda Haas

Gilda Haas is the Executive Director of SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy), that has accomplished significant economic advances for working class people in Los Angeles by using a popular education approach to community organizing. SAJE's pproach involves poor people in developing organizing strategy and policy initiatives themselve--ranging from creating the first welfare-to-work bank account in the nation to negotiating a package of community benefits with a company owned by the richest men in the world.