Tala Oszkay Febres-Cordero

Tala Oszkay Febres-Cordero, PhD is a Senior Research Analyst at the UCLA Labor Center. She completed her doctorate in Sociology at UCLA, focusing on how changing forms of political mobilization among community organizations, workers, and corporations shape local policymaking and economic development. As a mixed-methods sociologist who uses a community-based, participatory research approach, Tala is regularly inspired by the ways community-led ideas, expertise, and policy interventions can create systems change.