#5- Power Station with Gustavo Torres, CASA For ALL

Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA For All, and a national leader on immigrants' rights, is remarkably optimistic. His organization not only serves, through legal services, financial education and language classes, it deeply engages day laborers and domestic workers who are vulnerable to abuse, deportation and financial exploitation. Rather than seeing themselves as victims, they become informed members of CASA, with a vested interest in the well-being of the broader community. They attend monthly community meetings where they learn about state and federal policies relevant to them and they are invited to organize around these concerns. CASA has now taken the next step in building power and political influence by forming a 501c4 sister organization. As Gustavo says, "It's not that radical if you care about your community." His caring is galvanizing a community that has so much at stake and they are rising to the challenge