Marissa Nuncio joined the Garment Worker Center (GWC) in 2013. She became aware of worker struggles growing up in Magnolia Park, the oldest Mexican community in Houston, Texas, surrounded by the City’s port and oil refineries. As a young adult, she studied in Mexico three years after NAFTA was implemented and learned of its devastating impacts on workers and communities throughout North America. Her commitment to worker organizing was solidified there, and in 2001 she joined Sweatshop Watch, a co-founding organization of the GWC, where her role was to support the newly established Center and its first campaigns.

Inspired by work at the intersection of law and organizing, Ms. Nuncio went on to earn her juris doctorate at Loyola Law School. She has represented unions, car wash workers, and farmworkers. She is proud to have returned to the GWC to help frame its strategic organizing direction with its members and amazing staff.

Ms. Nuncio holds a bachelor of arts in women’s studies from Mount Holyoke College and proudly identifies as a Chicana.