Welcome Sig Meilus, incoming Director of the Community Services Agency

The Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO and the Community Services Agency extend a warm welcome to Sigute Meilus (she/her), the incoming Director of the Community Services Agency. Sigute is a community and worker organizer with deep roots in anti-poverty organizing and economic justice movements for public transportation, workers’ rights, and housing. She joins the Community Services Agency from Repairers of the Breach where she served as the Director of Organizing for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. 

Previously, Sigute worked to raise wages and improve working conditions with tipped workers, organized during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to connect community members to rental assistance and eviction diversion resources, and spent many years working alongside public transit workers and riders to build community-labor coalitions to improve public transportation locally and across the country. 

In her new role Sigute will lead the Community Services Agency's work bringing the DC region's labor movement to community service efforts. Welcome, Sig!