Sidney Ross Risden is a mother, grandmother, and an active member of the Global Women’s Strike, which she joined in the 1970’s when it was founded as the Wages for Housework Campaign. She also worked for over forty years as a nurse, first as an LVN and then as a RN, mostly in cardiac care. She helped lead an effort by LVNs at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to unionize, and was a founding member of the Coalition Against Discrimination in Nursing which challenged racism including in California’s RN licensing exam. Now retired from hospital work, she’s an unwaged caregiver for her husband who has a disability. Sidney also helps coordinate the work of Give Us Back Our Children in Los Angeles - mothers, grandmothers, supporters and organizations campaigning for an end to unjust separation of children from their mothers/other primary caregivers by the child welfare system due to poverty, not abuse or neglect.