Izeah R. Chairez is a Lead Political & Community Organizer for the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), an 18,000 member-led union representing workers in California and Hawaii. Through his work at NUHW, Izeah has advocated for the interests of health care workers at the local, state and federal level.  Izeah is also an active layperson at Newsong Church in Santa Ana, which he discovered through his labor activism with the faith community in OC. His faith calls him to advocate for the needs of the impoverished, the hungry, the misfit, and the “other.”