Natalicia Tracy, PhD in Sociology, Boston University, where she studied the intersectionality of race, gender, family, and immigration policy. For over a decade she taught at the Labor Studies and Sociology Departments of UMass Boston. She began volunteering at the Brazilian Worker Center (BWC) in 2006 and became the Executive Director in 2010, also founding a sister agency, the Connecticut Worker Center in Bridgeport. As she rebuilt the BWC, she strived to create an organization to engage with the root causes of social inequality and injustice, through building strong activist coalitions that included community, labor, faith organizations, legal aid, and local government. Most recently (2021-2025), Natalicia was Senior Policy Advisor at OSHA, US Department of Labor, in Washington, DC, as part of the Biden-Harris administration. Her responsibilities included working to deepen outreach to historically underserved and marginalized workers, through DOL’s “Impacts on Black Workers” project, its anti-trafficking task force, its Equity Board and other efforts to foster equitable recruiting, hiring, and promotions at DOL and multiple other projects on racial justice, gender equity, workplace safety, and development of more effective
responses to the new challenges of emergency preparedness in the face of climate change. She also has extensive experience in carrying out and reporting on community-based, participatory research into causes and solutions for injustices encountered by working people today.

Contact Natalicia at Natalicia@massclu.org or 617-659-4548