Bertrand Olotara (Washington, DC)

Bertrand Olotara is an immigrant from the Congo, a single father of five, with two college degrees and over $89,000 of student debt from a private University. He works on Capitol Hill as a US Senate cook but still struggles to feed his family on his US Senate wage of $12 an hour. He is also forced to work a second job at Whole Foods. He bravely penned an op-ed in the Guardian in April of this year to bring national attention to this issue and has joined his fellow Capitol Hill workers in striking for fair wages and the right to unionize with the organization Good Jobs Nation.