Deepak Pateriya has been an organizer, campaigner and alliance builder since the 1990s, in community organizing, the labor movement, and electoral politics. He is the former Managing Director of Community Change and Community Change Action; formerly at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and SCOPE. He is also the author of the chapter “Win Justice and Beyond: Winning Elections While Building Power for the Long Term” in Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections (OR Books, 2022).