Heather Day

Heather Day is co-founder and Executive Director of Community Alliance for Global Justice. In 1999 she helped organize the WTO protests while working with CISPES, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and hosted an event, "Voices from the Global South", featuring organizers from multiple continents. She cut her teeth as an organizer with the NAFTA-GATT Justice Committee after graduating from The Evergreen State College. She holds a Masters in Geography from the University of Washington; her research focused on how the Free Trade Areas of the Americas was defeated by activists collaborating transnationally.