Dawn Phillips, Adi Pimentel, and Jayanni Webster (Right to the City Alliance)

This session will be dedicated to presenting Right To The City Alliance's strategic assessment of the real estate and housing industry as a key site of struggle in this political moment; it will also lay out our demands and orientation to a housing front that is feminist, intersectional, and internationalist.

Dawn Phillips (he/him) has been a grassroots organizer engaged in a range of social, economic, racial and environmental justice organizations and fights in the Bay Area and nationally for over 20 years, and a founding member of the Right To The City Alliance. Dawn has helped develop and lead local, regional, statewide and national campaigns, participated and led numerous coalitions and movement formations and authored several nationally recognized reports and articles on topics ranging from equitable development, land and housing justice, grassroots organizing, movement building and strategy. Dawn is an immigrant from Singapore and a male-identified transgender person based in Oakland, California.

Adilka Pimentel (she/they/Adi) is a Black Latinx non-binary femme who was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to Brooklyn in 1991. Adilka has almost 20 years of organizing experience beginning in 2003 as a freshman in high school and youth leader at then Make the Road by Walking (now Make the Road New York). Adilka has thrown down in many campaigns in various issue areas (city and statewide) including: passing the NYS Dream Act, Defunding the NYPD, Fight for $15, removing cops from our schools, the Safer NY Act and opening the first Student Success Center in NYC in 2007. Adilka has a deep love of facilitation and political education and is a co-trainer for SOUL (School of Unity and Liberation) and A.I. (the Advocacy Institute). Adilka is a spoken word artist, an abolitionist, a pup mom and a lover of all things coffee. She currently lives in Munsee Lenape land (Queens,NYC).

Jayanni Webster (she/her) is a national organizer for Right To the City Alliance. Previously, she worked as a union organizer for United Campus Workers – CWA Local 3865 and prior to that as a communications and community organizer for the Fight for $15 Campaign. She has 10+ years of experience in student, labor and community activism ranging from anti-death penalty efforts to reproductive justice and anti-privatization organizing. Jayanni is a committed social movement leftist, Black feminist, and internationalist. She is deeply in love with puppies, plants, mangos & southern fried catfish. She is based in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.