Karla Zombro is the Strategic Initiatives Coordinator for Strategic Concepts for Organizing and Policy Education, where she helps coordinate local, state and national policy work, electoral strategies, and capacity-building programs. SCOPE’s electoral work focuses on a bottom-up approach bringing together local CBO’s, unions, churches and students to educate voters and increase turnout in low-income communities of color. Before coming to SCOPE in 1999, Karla was a union organizer for the Service Employees International Union Local 1877 with the Justice for Janitors campaign and was the Lead organizer for the Respect at LAX campaign which organized airport security workers.