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Interviewer
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
8-5-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1963
Description
Helene O'Brien was born in 1963 in the Bronx, New York. She grew up in a progressive, union-oriented environment and was exposed to the Catholic Worker movement and liberation theology from a young age. She began her career as a community organizer with ACORN in New York City in the late 1980s, eventually becoming the national field director for the organization. After Hurricane Katrina, she moved to New Orleans to help lead ACORN's efforts there, and later transitioned to working with SEIU in Louisiana and Florida, where she currently serves as the Vice President for Local 32 BJ of SEIU.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
1990s to present
Duration
36:49:00
File Size
220 MB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
O'Brien, Helene and Delgadillo, Rafael, "Oral History Interview with Helene O'Brien" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 17.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/17
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