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By InFocus news Staff
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Kim Bobo leads a network of people of faith who educate, organize and mobilize religious communities to improve wages, benefits and working conditions for low-wage workers. In 1991, she founded the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues, out of which the vision for the National Interfaith Committee on Worker Justice (IWJ) was developed. In 2003, Kim was a key organizer of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, which mobilized people of faith to speak out on the abuses and exploitations of immigrant workers. Every year, she brings together seminary and rabbinic students from a variety of faith traditions to work directly for unions on low-wage worker campaigns across the country, as part of the "Seminary Summer" program.
InFocus had a chance to interview this dynamic leader, who has stressed repeatedly that the issue of worker rights is a moral issue.
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