Aquilina Soriano Versoza

Aquilina Soriano Versoza is a founder and current Executive Director of the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California, a nonprofit serving and organizing the low-wage Pilipino immigrant community in Los Angeles. Aquilina has been a leader in the growing domestic worker movement in California and nationally through advocacy, enforcement, workforce development and cooperative strategies. Aquilina served for 3 terms as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and is one of the founders of COURAGE Homecare worker-owned cooperative agency. She is also a fellow at Rutgers University for the Build the Base program of the Workplace Justice Lab and an MIT Mel King Fellow focused on Centering Equity in Long-term Care. Aquilina currently sits on the Executive Committee for the California Workforce Equity Initiative Taskforce and has sat on various committees addressing racial inequities related to COVID-19 pandemic response programs. She was the recipient of the 2018 Frederick Douglass 200 Abolitionist award and has been appointed by Supervisor Hilda Solis to the Los Angeles County Women's Commission. She earned her BA in Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.