Jane McAlevey was a friend and a comrade and I can’t believe she’s gone. After she won the battle against her cancer so many times over the past few years, up until the very end part of me thought she’d find a way to beat it yet again. As a mutual friend texted me yesterday, “Jane was like a superhero, it seemed like if anybody could defeat death, it was her.”

Jane — organizer, writer, and teacher — will live on in the tens of thousands of organizers around the world committed to deep organizing methods. But like so many other people in what Jane affectionately called her “tribe,” I’m gutted that she’s gone. She had so much more to give the movement. And she would have loved to see the day when workers won on the scale she knew they were capable of.

Rather than attempt the impossible task of summing up Jane’s life in a few paragraphs, I want to offer a few thoughts on what I think what Jane would have wanted said and a few points about her legacy that might get overlooked.