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Advisory Comittee

Advisory Committee

The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is a dynamic collaborative effort to connect workers’ rights organizations, academics and students to build workplace and economic power for working people in this country. The Advisory Committee is the governing body of the emerging network of scholars and labor practitioners.

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Below are the current members of the LRAN Advisory Committee, organized by affiliation:

Union Representatives
    • Vonda McDaniel, President of Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennesee, OPEIU Local 182/USW 1055
    • Cassandra Ogren, Deputy Director – Strategic Research and Campaigns Department, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
    • Julie Farb, Center for Strategic Research, AFL-CIO
    • Eric Dirnbach, **Researcher – Green Jobs Campaign at the Laborers Union
    • Amy Callner, Senior Researcher/Campaigner – American Federation of Teachers
Worker Center Representatives
    • Tanya Wallace-Goburn, Executive Director, National Black Workers Center Project 
Academic Representatives
    • Jessica Cook-Qurayshi, Ph.D Director of the DePaul University Labor Education Center
    • Tamara Lee, Esq. Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER), Rutgers University
    • Naomi Williams, Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER), Rutgers University
    • Lane Windham, Fellow with Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
    • Ruben Garcia, Co-Director, UNLV Workplace Law Program, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law 
    • Patrice Mareschal, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University 
Non-Profit Representatives
    • Valeria Treves, Director of the Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT) Fund