Our chapter was founded on March 19, 1981. Though it went dormant for 17 years,two LCLAA members reactivated in 1998. I don’t recall when National has set the year as a working chapter. We struggled in the beginning, because Lansing didn’t know LCLAA. So when I was elected president in 2008, and took over in 2009, I told the members that this isn’t my chapter. This is our chapter. What do you want to do? So this is how we began to have Lansing area know us.

• Voter Registration and voter education at area high school and university

• Attend Labor Rallies and participated at MI AFL-CIO events

• Attend meetings with Action of Greater Lansing, Civil and Human Rights

• for Immigrants.

• Volunteer at UM Labor Studies. We present workshops

• Volunteered in packing lunches for school children

• Collect personal beauty/hygiene products and donate to shelters

• Adopt less fortunate families during Thanksgiving and Christmas-we filled a