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Much of the literature that does exist on multicultural organizing emphasizes the ways in which organizers can develop cultural competence and cultural humility for working in partnership with communities (Chávez, 2018; Greene-Moton & Minkler, 2020). This literature stressed the ways in which organizers can use their own self-awareness to build bridges for work within communities. Organizers are encouraged to examine their own biases and take the role of the learner in approaching a community and discovering its strengths and concerns (Chávez, 2018; Guadalupe & Lum, 2005; Gutiérrez et al., 2005; appendix 1). Several scholars, most notably Felix Rivera and John Erlich (1998), made early and critical contributions to organizing with communities of color by positing that the appropriate roles for organizers are best determined by their relationship to the community (Midgley, 2007; Spencer et al., 2000 …