Past leaders

Myriam Hernandez Jennings

Director of Policy and Organizing - 2015 to 10.2021

Born in Chile, Myriam credits the cruel dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet with catalyzing her active and lifelong commitment to community organizing, social, political and economic justice, starting at the age of 12. She is profoundly moved and influenced by liberation theology, and has more than 15 years of experience applying its theory in the public health field, including leading the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy as their Executive Director, and in her role as the National Project Director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Project working as the Director of Diversity and Health Equity Center at the JSI Research & Training Institute in Boston, and being a board member of the feminist collective Our Bodies Ourselves where she edited the first Spanish edition of their best-selling guide to women's health and well-being.

Myriam has an MA in Theology from Andover Newton Theological School, a certificate in Maternal and Child Health from Boston University's School of Public Health, and she is certified in HIV/AIDS & Substance Abuse Education through Boston University's School of Medicine and Public Health.

Magalis Troncoso Lama

Co-Director - 2015 to 8.2021

Originally from the Dominican Republic, Magalis has a degree in Social Communication from the University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and in Public Services from the University of Massachusetts, and a graduate Degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, Arizona. She is the founder member and director of the Dominican Development Center, a non-profit organization, located in Boston, MA, where she has lived for more than three decades.

She serves in several Boards of Directors, including Boston Legal Services, the Haymarket Foundation, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), and the Boston Women's Fund. She is also founder member and President of the Network of Women in Solidarity and the First Conference of Latina Women, held every year in Massachusetts’ State House in Boston. He collaborates in several media outlets, directs the “Community Contact” Program, and produces “Vida Hispana” aired on Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN), where she was also recently recognized for her 20 years of collaboration.

Lena Gluck

Communications Coordinator - 12.2021 to 5.2022

Lena is a mutual aid organizer in North New Jersey with a work background in libraries. They were invited to MCDW in December 2021 to help shape communications, and to build and solidify infrastructure with a focus on clear design, language justice, and accessibility. Lena is also interested in creating new methods of raising consciousness around the domestic workers’ movement while simultaneously generating material support for workers and movement work through fundraising. 

They support revolutionary action and work towards building a world without racial capitalism, borders, gender based oppression, or prisons of any kind. They believe that a world where the dignity of every person is respected and everyone has access to everything they need to survive and thrive is possible. MCDW’s vision aligns closely with this goal, and Lena is honored to contribute.

Mayra Molina

Outreach Coordinator and Lead Steward to the Mothers Leaders program - 3.2020 through 5.2022

Mayra Molina hails from El Salvador and has been in the US for more than 10 years. She has worked at a pizzeria shop, a farmworker, and a domestic worker, all jobs that are highly unprotected in the US. Her past experience motivates her to organize domestic workers; she feels people shouldn't endure what she has suffered. She wants them to have courage, strength, and believe in their voices. She believes domestic workers can't stay silent, we need to speak up because we are all equal.

December 2021, she won the Woman of Courage Award from the Dominican Development Center (DDC) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) for her commitment to social justice in Massachusetts, and her tireless effort and community activism during the COVID-19 crisis in her community and beyond.

She loves community organizing, and connecting with people in social media, so people feel that they can be heard, and they are not alone. She also loves cleaning: “I do it with love.” She looks forward to contributing to raise domestic workers’ salaries and helping to change peoples' perception of domestic workers. “We are all equal.”

MYRNA E. MORALES

Executive Director, 9.2021 - 8.2022

Myrna first joined the MCDW team in 2019 as the Social Media Coordinator, and was impressed with the mission and inspired by the leadership in the Coalition. That inspiration has motivated her to step up to steward this vital organization leading the charge for dignity, respect, and justice for the people who do this sacred and essential work.

Myrna is a PhD candidate in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois iSchool.  She is also lead steward of the racial healing project for Community Change, Inc., an organization dedicated to organizing white people to combat structural racism. She has an MA in Teaching from Brown University, an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and a BA in Urban Studies from Bates College. She spent some years studying medicine and socialism at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba, and working as a public school educator in New Jersey and Boston before working in research data ethics and technology management for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region.

Her rich background in medical education, education, library and information science and community organizations has helped her understand that information is not only a tool that enables, permits and creates injustices, but a tool that can guide us towards collective liberation.

Ayoola white

Communications Coordinator, 6.2022 - 8.2022