Cheri Honkala

Cheri Honkala is the executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a multiracial organization of, by, and for poor and homeless people. Honkala was named among the 100 most powerful people in the region by The Philadelphian. She played a leading role in the Economic Human Rights Campaign, the March of the Americas, and the first-ever summit of 100 antipoverty organizations.