Leading efforts for a living wage, she is widely quoted in national newspapers and broadcast media as an expert on worker justice issues.

[1] Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised a conservative evangelical, Bobo graduated from Barnard College in New York City with a bachelor's degree in religion.

[2] Bobo left Bread for the World in 1986 and became an instructor at the Midwest Academy, a community organizing training institute in Chicago, Illinois.

The group changed its name to Interfaith Worker Justice in 2005, by which time it had grown to 59 local affiliates and a full-time staff of 10.

She mobilized a historic faith advocacy campaign and played a leadership role in the statewide Healthcare for All Virginians coalition advocating Medicaid expansion, which passed in 2018.

The program offers certification and recognition to businesses that pay their workers a wage in line with living costs of the city.

[10][11][12] Bobo was named one of 14 “Faith Leaders to Watch” in 2014 by the Center for American Progress, and one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” in 2009.

Bobo joins previous award recipients including Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.