Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

John Delloro is the Executive Director of DHLI. He is also a visiting lecturer at UCLA, where he teaches a regular course on theories of leadership development and strategy in Asian American/Pacific Islander communities and is a faculty member of the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College Labor Studies Center. He teaches labor studies courses at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College and has taught classes on “Asian Americans and Affirmative Action” and “Asian Americans and the Garment Industry” at UCLA and trainings and seminars on labor history, workplace issues and organizing at various trade unions and community organizations.

John writes a regular national blog for the Asian American Action Fund, which has been awarded archival status by the US Library of Congress for its coverage of the Presidential 2008 election, and several other on-line organizational sites. In addition to his academic background, he previously served as a manager of the southwest California area of the 90,000 member SEIU Local 1000, the Union of California State Workers and as a staff director for the acute care hospital division of SEIU Local 399, the Healthcare Employees union. He has also worked as an organizer for the Culinary Union (HERE Local 226) in Las Vegas and AFSCME International organizing Los Angeles Superior Court clerical employees. He was one of the co-founders of the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC), and recently served as the president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, the largest national organization of Asian/Pacific Islander working families.

John is currently the National President of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.  He sits on the Legal Advisory Board of the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA) and the Board of Directors of PWC and serves as an appointee on the California Assembly Speaker's Commission on Labor Education. He is a Southern California board representative for the Southwest Labor Studies Association and a delegate member of the Labor in the Schools Committee of the California Federation of Teachers. He completed his Master of Arts degree in Asian American Studies with an interest in Asian Americans and the US labor movement and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at UCLA and his Associate of Arts in Social Science at College of the Canyons.

Kenadi Le is the Program Coordinator of DHLI. She is a faculty member of the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College Labor Studies Center. Previously, she served a clerkship working as a Research Attorney covering four civil law departments at the Los Angeles Superior Court. She has done legal work in the areas of domestic violence, community development and employment law as a Legal Advocate for Neighborhood Legal Services. Kenadi was a Teaching Assistant for the Asian American Studies Department at UC Davis.  

Kenadi received her Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Berkeley, where she made Dean’s Honors List. She received her Juris Doctor degree from UC Davis School of Law, where she ranked in the top 20% of her graduating class and was a King Hall Grant recipient.  She is an active member of the State Bar of California. Some of her other professional affiliations include the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges, the Southwest Labor Studies Association and the Los Angeles Chapter of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.
 

Lou Siegel is a labor relations consultant based in Los Angeles who works exclusively with unions in communications, government affairs, organizational and strategic development and fundraising.  He has assisted various labor organizations in contract negotiations, political action, media relations, membership recruitment and leadership training. 

An advocate of the American Labor Movement’s role in economic development and democratic progress, Lou works to make union concerns heard in educational, political and journalistic circles.  He edits union periodicals and journals, publicizes workplace issues, develops and implements lobbying campaigns and raises money for labor-friendly candidates and causes.  He teaches labor relations through the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College Labor Center.