I felt like as a parent, much more so, what kind of world do I want to make for my child?

What things do I want to change that I saw, or I saw that my mother did and my grandmother

did, that I want my daughter not to have to face?

And I think about that even today, when we think about things like pay equity or sexual harassment at work, it's like how many

generations are we going to keep going until we say enough?

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez has been called the California Democrat setting the national

agenda and with good reason.

She's fought to increase the state's minimum wage, expand paid sick leave, and she also took

on gig economy giants like Uber. A bill she's sponsored just became a law, and it will

reclassify contractors from ride share drivers to exotic dancers as employees.

In a word that is huge.

But those who've been following her political career are not surprised.

Lorena came to the State Assembly with an agenda.

She's just ticking things off her to-do list.

Your mom organized her fellow nurses. Did you ever shadow her?

My mom was just a nurse. And sometimes I think it's been reported a little like she was an organizer.

My mom was a nurse who wanted a union in her workplace. She wasn't a union organizer. She wanted a union in her workplace. And that's so typical of so many workers out there.

And so most of my life, my mom was a single mom, and I just, I loved every minute I could spend

with her because she worked often 60 hours a week. And I in high school became a candy striper

at the hospital just so I could see my mom during her breaks.

It was volunteer work for me, but it was also an opportunity to see my mom and understand why a

union was important to her. And it wasn't about pay. She actually would tell me that she thought

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