Javier Morillo-Alicea
Javier Morillo-Alicea
Labor President and Political Appointee
Morillo-Alicea is president of SEIU Local 26, which unites over 5,100 property service workers — janitors, security guards, and window cleaners. He came to Minnesota in 2000 to teach anthropology and history at Carleton College. Morillo-Alicea taught a year in the Macalester College History Department before a sudden career change and good fortune moved him out of academia and into the labor movement. Currently, he serves as an appointee of Mayor Chris Coleman to the St. Paul Riverfront Development Corporation and to the St. Paul Human Rights Commission. He is also an appointee of Mayor R.T. Rybak to the Minneapolis Private Industry Workforce Council. He lives on the West Side of St. Paul with his partner and their dog and cats.
Morillo-Alicea can be contacted at JMorillo@seiu26.org.