She Cared for America’s Children. She’s Also Reshaping Our Democracy.

She Cared for America's Children. She's Also Reshaping Our Democracy. | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Adriana George turned domestic workers’ stories of abuse and exhaustion into a push for stronger protections in Philadelphia. (Sarah Porter for The 19th) This story was copublished with The 19th, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, policy, and power, as well as #WeTheCivic: America 250, a narrative movement centering the multiracial nonprofit and civil society workers, organizations, and communities in America 250 n…

She cared for America’s children. She’s also reshaping our democracy.

In the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary, Errin Haines is writing a series of columns to contemplate the complicated expansion of our democracy. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter. Adriana George immigrated to the United States from the Caribbean at 21 years old and soon found community in her new home, doing the work she loved as a nanny in New York City.  In New York, George met her husband. Together, they moved to Philadelphia, wh…