Affiliates
Teresa Ghilarducci is a labor economist and nationally recognized expert on retirement security and labor markets. She is the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research and Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
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Rick McGahey is an economist and a nationally recognized expert on urban and regional economic development, program evaluation, retirement policy, and workforce development. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at the New…
Triana Silton has over 30 years-experience in the labor movement, starting with the Justice for Janitors campaign of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 399…
Chris Brooks was the UAW’s Chief Strategist and central architect of the union’s historic 2023 Stand Up Strike. He also oversaw the national organizing drive that resulted in the UAW’s first successful unionization of a foreign-owned auto plant in the South and founded the UAW’s Department of…
Jonathan Rosenblum is thrilled and honored to be a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Work and Democracy, where he is focusing on building power for logistics industry workers. He comes to the Center with 42 years of…
Scott Jenkins is an organizer with Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). His background is in internal organizing and education with workers in the logistics industry. Recently he was a strategist and organizer with TDU for the 2023 UPS contract campaign. Previously he was the national…
Jeanelle Austin has always been a voice for equality and change. Jeanelle received her bachelor’s degree in Christian ministries at Messiah College, where she helped to design student programs focused on race, diversity, and culture. She continued her education at Fuller University where she…
Indulata Prasad is an assistant professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation. Her research and scholarship include South Asia, Social Movements, Dalit Studies, Oral History, Social Mapping, Gender, Caste, and Land Rights. In her current project, she uses social…
Heewon Kim is a scholar-activist committed to producing research that envisions and enacts alternative ways of organizing to advance liberation, dignity, and radical equality. Grounded in anticolonial, intersectional, and feminist scholarship, she advances scholarly and pedagogical missions to…
Tracy Perkins is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in social inequality, social movements, and the environment. Her 2022 book, Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism (University of California Press), examines the political evolution…
Daniel Schugurensky is a Professor at Arizona State University, with a joint appointment in the School of Social Transformation and the School of Public Affairs. He is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Social and Cultural Pedagogy and the Director of the Participatory Governance Initiative.…
Doug is Professor of Global Leadership and Executive Director of China Initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Doug has spent his career researching, writing, teaching and advising companies about two topics: organizational development, where he has focused on…
Jennifer Carlson (PhD, UC Berkeley) is a Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for the Study of Guns in Society at Arizona State University. Her work examines the politics of guns in American life. She is the author of …
Michael Selmi joined the faculty as a Foundation Professor of Law in 2020. He was previously the Samuel Tyler Research Professor at George Washington University Law School where he taught for more than twenty years, and has also taught at The University of North Carolina, Boston University and…