Renee Saucedo is an organizer, an activist and a lawyer who has played a prominent role in this country's immigrant rights movement at all levels. She has led various immigrant rights organizations and has participated in numerous community campaigns related to the rights of undocumented immigrants, immigrant workers and poor people, generally. She founded INS WATCH, a grassroots organization that resists INS enforcement, facilitated immigrant organizing around Welfare Reform, and helped push for San Francisco being declared an "INS Raid-Free Zone."
Renee believes that real change happens when oppressed people organize, create controversy and fight back. In her current job as Director of the San Francisco Day Laborer Program, Renee supports organizing by day laborers and domestic workers, and has helped establish a Day Laborer Center, a San Francisco Day Laborer Association and a Domestic Workers Collective.
Saucedo formerly chaired the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission and was the former Executive Director of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights. She was also a member of the Mayor's Task Force on Welfare Reform.
She has been honored with numerous community service awards from organizations including the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund (MALDEF), the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, the San Francisco Minority Bar Association and the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women.
