Karina Muñiz-Pagán

As the former Creative Strategies Lead Organizer for the National Domestic Workers Alliance’s  Culture Change team, Karina led and co-facilitated the inaugural Pop Culture Worker Council of 2021-2022. Fifteen member leaders were selected, and more than seven languages were spoken amongst the cohort: Haitian Creole, Garífuna, Nepali, Spanish, Tagalog, Portuguese, and English. The multiracial group of Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, and AAPI leaders represented each sector of domestic work: house cleaners, nannies, home care workers for older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers. Members spent nine months together exploring how we use, create, and develop stories and other immersive narrative experiences to spark profound shifts in how people think, feel, and behave in the world. Throughout history, culture and storytelling have been the backbone of social movements. How stories – through words and visuals – are told often defines whose lives and voices are valued and whose are not. 

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Visual Art and Storytelling 

In 2021, Karina supported the work of visual artists and NDWA’s We Dream in Black domestic worker leaders and organizers who launched a four-part mural tour series in Atlanta, Georgia. The murals tell different parts of Dorothy Bolden’s story. Karina is proud to have collaborated on this mural project to honor and lift up the transformative powerful contribution of Mrs. Bolden and members of the National Domestic Workers Union of America to the civil rights movement. Their voter registration efforts and leadership in the fight for domestic worker dignity and rights are part of Atlanta’s long-standing history of Black domestic worker organizing and resistance that continues today.