Gwendolyn has been an employee of Service Employees International Union for eight years. She was hired as a result of organizing her co-workers in the homecare industry who are predominantly women of color. Her special interest is in building a universal child care system that works for all families. Gwen works with community organizations to achieve universal child care, the fight for $15, and a union. For her work, she has traveled both locally and across the country with early childhood educators and caregivers, and with them has met with city council and state legislators to discuss the need of universal child care and what it will take to build a sustainable early learning system from birth to 5 years. Gwen joined the WWHP board in 2017.