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Interviewer
Rafael Delgadillo
Contributor
Max Krochmal
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
10-17-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1980
Description
Leah Bailey is a Senior Community and Political Organizer for UNITE HERE Local 23. Born in New Orleans in 1980, she spent her high school years in Alabama and later graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in restaurant and hotel management. Her early career was in management with Sodexo. After experiencing burnout, she moved back to New Orleans in 2009, where she worked as a server in the French Quarter. In 2014, she was hired at Manning's restaurant inside Harrah's Casino, where she first became involved with the union. Her mother had also been a union member with AT&T. Through her work, Bailey gained extensive experience in shop-floor leadership, contract negotiations, corporate research, and political organizing within the hospitality industry.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
2010s to present
Duration
1:27:47
File Size
2.22 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Leah and Delgadillo, Rafael, "Leah Bailey Oral History Interview" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 31.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/31
Comments
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