Theresa El-Amin

Theresa El-Amin is an African-American civil rights activist, union organizer and former member of the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee.

Biography El-Amin attended Tuskegee University She began working in Tuskegee and Atlanta. In Atlanta, El-Amin worked for the phone company and was active in the Communications Workers of America. In the 1980s and 1990s, El-Amin was involved with the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Service Employees International Union, Solidarity, and Black Workers for Justice. She organized clerical workers at the Cleveland Public Library. Later, she helped found the United States Labor Party in 1996. She worked with Jobs from Justice from 1993 to 2006

On February 5, 2013, El-Amin announced that she had been arrested in Columbus, Georgia on unspecified charges. She continues to speak and organize around issues of racism, incarceration, the death penalty, and social justice.