About KIWA
KIWA’s Mission: To empower Koreatown’s low-wage immigrant workers and to develop a progressive constituency and leadership in the Koreatown community that can struggle in solidarity with other underrepresented communities in and beyond Koreatown.
Our Vision: To build a multi-ethnic worker/resident “COMMUNITY UNION” with the power to transform our workplaces and communities in Koreatown and to affect broad change throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
KIWA’s mission is to empower Koreatown’s low-wage immigrant workers for dignity and respect in the workplace and community, and to work together with other communities to realize a vision of a just Los Angeles that works for everyone. As one of Los Angeles’ most unequal local economies, the struggles of the Koreatown’s low-wage immigrant workers point to the core problems in our society and systems, as well as offer up potential solutions. Koreatown is an important battleground in the struggle to create a more equitable city.