Ligia Guallpa is the Executive Director of the Worker’s Justice Project (WJP), a 15,000 member worker center that educates, organizes and fights to win better work conditions. In 2020, WJP organized Los Deliveristas Unido (LDU), a gig worker collective making historic strides for delivery workers – from raising labor standards through six landmark laws protecting New York City’s 65,000 app-based delivery workers to launching a partnership with the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation and Department of Transportation for a first-in-the-nation initiative to build public charging stations for e-battery powered bikes and rest hubs across the city to respond to the growing need for e-battery powered bikes.

Under Ligia’s leadership, WJP fights to win labor rights for workers and is transforming their industries to be a driver and source of quality jobs. Most recently, Deliveristas secured a landmark policy win that requires food delivery apps to pay delivery workers in NYC a minimum of $21.44 per hour, not including tips.