Ai-Jen Poo's Activism

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As Women’s History Month rolls around this year we have plenty of women to thank for making our world a safer and better one. A woman I admire due to her activism and thoughtfulness for others is Ai-jen Poo. Ai-jen Poo is the perfect example of a women who is making our world a better place by her activism to create better laws to protect domestic workers.

Ai-jen Poo’s activism would begin at a committee against Asian violence where she would hear about the domestic work problems and in 2000 she would found the New York City’s Domestic Workers

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