Ligia Guallpa

Ligia Guallpa headshot
Worker’s Justice Project
Executive Director

Ligia Guallpa the co-founder and Executive Director of the Worker’s Justice Project and Los Deliveristas Unidos. 

For more than twelve years, she has been organizing gig workers to build a government and economy that works for all workers. Under her leadership, WJP launched Los Deliveristas Unidos— the country's largest workers’ collective that represents 65,000 app delivery workers and is organizing to advance the rights of app-based delivery workers in NYC.

Guallpa is currently leading some of the most important issues of our time, including immigration, workers rights, climate change and runaway inequality. Guallpa was named as New York City’s Labor Power 100 leader by City & State New York for protecting app delivery workers from powerful tech companies.