Project Co-Coordinators

David Reynolds, aa2589@wayne.edu, is a faculty member in the Labor Studies Center at Wayne State University in Detroit. His most recent work is Partnering for Change: Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice (M.E. Sharpe 2004). His Taking the High Road: Communities Organize for Economic Change was selected by Choice as an outstanding academic book of 2002. For inquiries about the project email Reynolds or call 313-577-2197.

Cathy Howell, chowell@aflcio.org is Assistant Director for Leadership Development in the Political Field Department of AFL-CIO. 202-637-5319.

AFL-CIO and Union Staff

Scott Reynolds, Sreynold@aflcio.org is staff in the Field Mobilization Department, AFL-CIO. 202-637-5226.

Bruce Colburn, colburnb@seiu.org has served as Sectretary-Treasurer of the Milwaukee Labor Council and Deputy Director of Field Mobilization AFL-CIO. He now is now on the national staff of the Service Employees International Union.

Researchers

Barbara Bryd bbyrd@uoregon.edu is a senior instructor at the Portland Office of the Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon. She is the co-author with Bruce Nissen of Report on the State of Labor Education in the United States (2003) and has conducted leadership development and planning retreats for labor councils and state federations in the Northwest. She co-chairs the CLC/State Federation Task Force of the United Association for Labor Education.

Larry Frank lfrank@ile.ucla.edu serves as the staff director and project director on research at the UCLA Labor Center. Larry worked previously as an organizer with the United Farm Workers of America, then with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and then on the national organizing staff of the Communication Workers of America. He spent eight years building a precinct organization with unions and non-profit organizations in Los Angeles. He practiced labor and criminal law for ten years before his current tenure.

Ian Greer, Cornell University icg2@cornell.edu is a PhD student at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is currently conducting his dissertation research comparing labor-community economic development projects in Buffalo, Seattle, and Hamburg, Germany.

Stephanie Luce sluce@econs.umass.edu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Labor Center. She is the author of Fighting for a Living Wage (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), and co-author with Robert Pollin of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy (New York: the New Press, 2000).

Mark Nelson nelson@lrrc.umass.edu is a graduate student in the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Grievance Coordinator for the Graduate Employee Organization/UAW 2322. Mark is a journeyman plumber and member of Plumbers and Pipefitters local 19, Salt Lake City. He was an organizer for the Plumbers and Pipefitters in Utah before entering graduate school.

Tom Karson tdkarson@ualr.edu has worked as a Labor Educator at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) since 1995. Tom has helped organize new COSH groups (Committees for Occupational Safety and Health) in Arkansas and Houston, Texas, and has served on the steering committee of the national COSH network.

Nari Rhee nari@socrates.berkeley.edu is a doctoral candidate in Geography at the University of California at Berkeley where she is working on a dissertation on working class politics in Silicon Valley. She has also conducted policy research on housing and the hourglass economy with New Economy Working Solutions, a labor-based nonprofit.based in Sonoma County, California.

Kent Wong kentwong@ucla.edu is Director of the Center for Labor Research and Education at UCLA, where he teaches Labor Studies and Asian American Studies. He writes extensively on labor issues, and co-edited a book entitled Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement. His prior book, Voices for Justice: Asian Pacific American Organizers and the New American Labor Movement , has been translated into Chinese and Japanese.