Alma is an advocate for strong unions as a Chicago Chapter Council member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), a member of Actors’ Equity, and a member of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). She has a passion for Women’s history and has travelled as a Road Scholar with the Illinois Humanities Council, performing her one-woman show about Lucy Parsons, labor leader in the 1880s and her role in the Haymarket Tragedy. She also received the Nelson Algren Committee Award and is a trustee of the Illinois Labor History Society.