Seattle-born Michael Woo is a Chinese American who attended the University of Washington and worked in the airline industry before joining the United Construction Workers Association. There he organized workers of color to advocate for themselves, specifically helping Black employees enforce the court-ordered desegregation of Seattle’s construction unions, a transformative experience that led Woo to do organizing work for the UCWA throughout its lifespan. He later served as the founder and executive director of the Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing. Better known as LELO, the nonprofit organization works to empower low-income workers of color, recent immigrants and women workers to assert their rights, improve their working conditions and gain a voice in their workplaces, trade unions and communities. Woo also helped publish “No Separate Peace,” a radical publication created to organize and give voice to Seattle’s workers of color.