Zulema Chavero
Zulema Chavero (she /her) is a Community Organizer with Somos Un Pueblo Unido en Santa Fe, New Mexico. Somos Un Pueblo Unido is a statewide immigrant-based organization that works to promote racial and worker justice in New Mexico. Through its community organizing, citizenship electoral engagement, litigation, and policy advocacy efforts, Somos has helped shape New Mexico’s immigrant and worker’s rights landscape for over two decades. The organization has spearheaded several local and statewide laws and has won dozens of awards for its grassroots work. Currently, Zulema is the lead organizer of Ciudadanía ¡Ya! an innovative program created by the Workers Committee of the United Worker Center in Santa Fe NM. Through this program, she recruits and organizes qualifying lawful permanent residents to become citizens and active members of our community, participating in getting out the vote and in broader campaigns for workers’ rights. Zulema joined Somos in 2006 as an active member. In 2008 she became an organizer for a workers’ project. She organized several strong workers' committees that set a precedent for the later creation of a Workers’ Center in Santa Fe.