our team
Norma Martinez HoSang
Coalition Co-Director

Norma has been a labor and community organizer for over 20 years in California, Oregon and Connecticut. She has organized and bargained in public sector unions with membership in higher education, health care and other Public State Services. As a community organizer she has led campaigns on issues affecting immigrants, youth and other communities that have been left behind. 

She is a CIWO fellow and believes that the only way to win the kind of structural change we need is by uniting labor and community members in building people power to win and developing Common Good Campaigns.

Constanza Segovia
Coalition Co-Director

Since 2016, Constanza has been the co-founder and lead organizer of Hartford Deportation Defense (HDD), an immigrant-led immigrant rights organization that organizes neighbors to build a just and dignified future for their families and communities in the Hartford region. Their current focus is access to health care, quality public schools, renters’ rights, and workers’ rights. Constanza has represented HDD and helped lead statewide social justice coalitions like the CT Immigrant Rights Alliance, HUSKY 4 Immigrants, the CT Coalition for Immigrant Freedom, and Connecticut For All. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she helped start the CT UndocuFund and the Mutual Aid Hartford network. Since 2024, she has been the organizing director for the statewide community-labor-faith coalition Connecticut For All.

Among Constanza’s proudest accomplishments is the establishment of the Families Facing Deportation Fund at the City of Hartford, the expansion of the HUSKY program to include undocumented kids up to age 15 and undocumented pregnant people, and the recognition of Connecticut pardons by ICE, resulting in people avoiding deportation because of their criminal record once they obtain a pardon in our state.

Constanza grew up in Mendoza, Argentina, and moved to the US at the age of 17. She is formerly undocumented and part of a mixed status family. She lives in Hartford, CT, with her family.

Michelle Gardner
Finance and Operations Director

Bio coming soon.

Obed Sierra
Coalition Organizer
Obed graduated with a Bachelors in Social Work, Since February 2024 Obed joined Connecticut For All Coalition as a Community Organizer.
Jared Cavagnuolo
Housing Organizer
Bio coming soon.
our board

Leslie Blatteau, Chair
President, New Haven Federation of Teachers

Rob Baril, Vice-Chair
President, 1199 NE

the coalition
Our statewide coalition of labor, community, and faith organizations represents hundreds of thousands of people—black, brown, and white. We stand united in a long-term mission to eliminate systemic inequalities and rebuild a better Connecticut.
  1. Connecticut AFL-CIO
  2. Eastern CT Area Labor Federation
  3. Western CT Area Labor Federation
  4. SEBAC
  5. AFSCME Council 4
  6. AFT Connecticut
  7. Hartford Federation of Teachers – AFT Local 1018
  8. New Haven Federation of Teachers – AFT Local 933
  9. CSU-AAUP
  10. SEIU State Council
  11. SEIU 1199 New England
  12. SEIU 32BJ
  13. CEUI – SEIU Local 511
  14. AFSCME Local 3429
  15. CSEA – SEIU Local 2001
  16. The 4Cs – SEIU Local 1973
  17. UFCW Local 919
  18. UFCW Local 371
  19. UNITE-HERE 217
  20. UConn-AAUP
  21. UCPEA
  22. UAW Region 9A
  23. UAW-GEU UConn Grad Students
  1. Reverend Josh Pawelek, Unitarian Universalist Society: East
  2. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury
  3. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Meriden
  4. Universal Health Care Foundation of CT
  5. Hearing Youth Voices
  6. Hartford Deportation Defense / Colectivo de Defensa
  7. HUSKY for Immigrants Coalition
  8. Justice in Action Group of Asylum Hill Congregational Church
  9. Connecticut Democratic Socialist of America
  10. Make the Road Connecticut
  11. Naugatuck Valley Project
  12. New Britain Racial Justice Coalition
  13. New Haven Peoples Center
  14. New Haven Rising
  15. Citywide Youth Coalition
  16. Comunidades sin Fronteras
  17. Connecticut Alliance for Retired Americans
  18. Connecticut Fair Housing Center
  19. Connecticut Students for a Dream (C4D)
  20. Connecticut Tenants Union
  21. She Leads Justice
  22. Connecticut Working Families Party
  23. Childcare for CT coalition
  24. United Way Statewide