Board Member
External Advisory Board
Biography
Cedric de Leon is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published five books including Crisis! When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule (2019) and The Origins of Right to Work (2015). He writes on race, labor, and party politics and teaches courses in social theory, political sociology, organizing, and intersectionality. Prior to becoming an academic, he was a staff person and elected leader in the U.S. labor movement.
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