Leadership
Jake Schwitzer
Executive Director
Jake Schwitzer has spent over a decade researching, creating, enacting, and defending public policies that improve the lives of working Minnesotans. He has been a grassroots organizer, communicator, and senior staffer to Senators Al Franken and Tina Smith. When he’s not thinking about how to improve government programs, you can find him biking with his wife and kids in the summer, or cheering for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the winter.
Aaron Rosenthal
Research Director
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Emma Piorier
Communications Director
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Advisory Board
Aaron Sojourner
Senior Economist and Deputy Director of Research
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Adam Moskowitz
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Iowa Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest
Alisha Volante
Strategic Research Director
Tending the Soil
Amy Livingston
Director, Labor Education Service
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Ashley Baber
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Augsburg University
Charlotte Garden
Gray, Plant, Mooty, & Bennett Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Dave Kamper
Senior State Policy Strategist
Economic Policy Institute
Jennifer Schultz
Professor of Economics
University of Minnesota Duluth
John Budd
Industrial Relations Land Grant Chair
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Kim Vu Dinh
Professor of Law, Louis L. Ainsworth Distinguished Professorship in Business and Law, Director of the Economic Inclusion Clinic
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Lucas Franco
Research Manager of Great Lakes Regional Organizing Committee
Laborers International Union of North America
Mauri Systo
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
University of Minnesota Morris
Morris Kleiner
AFL-CIO Chair in Labor Policy
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Nichola Lowe
Professor and Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Noah Wexler
Field Organizer
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
Shenika Chambers
Ph.D. Student, Public Affairs
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
William Jones
Professor, History
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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