Nao Riot/Hooks

Fashion Riot! - About five years ago, when they first moved to Philadelphia, Nao started a fashion design company called Fashion Riot!. The company is a worker-owned cooperative with all employees being members of the IndustriALL Global Union. The company became a certified B-Corp only a year after its inception and places a strong focus on both worker and environment-friendly production at every step in their production chain, from the growing of the materials that make the fabrics to the actual production of the textiles. (Status: Arts & Entertainment )

An Injury to One - Nao is an advocate for the power of unions to curtail abuses that workers worldwide face every day. They're a member of both the IWW and IndustriALL where they were a part of founding the regional office for the United States, in Philadelphia. They make it a mission to help workers who want to unionize do so, and has a reputation for helping employees deal with union-busting efforts by their employers. Occasionally the circumstances of those union-busting efforts being dropped have been kind of suspicious! (Status: Unions )

Labor Liason - With an apparent desperate need to fill the hours of the day with productive work, Nao works with the Office of Labor Relations at City Hall as a labor liaison. (Status: Government )

Shit-Stirrer - There are a lot of things to get mad at in the world and sometimes people aren't as angry about them as they should be. Nao has a knack for getting people to see why they should be upset, and then getting them to do something about it. This has ranged from helping to organize protests to things much more illegal, but fortunately done with a face other than their own. Direct action gets the goods, though.

Honolulu - Nao is from Honolulu originally, so people who are also from there might know her.