Dr. Carmen Brick is a senior researcher with the Low-Wage Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Her research at the Labor Center focuses on job quality, access to job training, and the growing affordability crisis affecting worker well-being. Carmen is an alum of the Shift Project, where her research examined the production of […]

Jaz Brisack, nationally known as a co-founder of Starbucks Workers United, has joined the Labor Center as a practitioner in residence.

Brad Hirn is an organizer who believes in building unions at work and at home. Since December 2016, he has served as a lead organizer at Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a long-standing tenants’ rights organization in San Francisco. Through his work at HRCSF, Brad has created a model for using disciplined structure-based organizing […]

Teachers union leader Alex Caputo-Pearl joined the Labor Center on July 1 for a year-long practitioner-in-residence appointment. He will build on the Leadership Development Program’s partnerships with the NEA, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), and other educator unions. With 22 years of experience as a teacher and nine years as a full-time elected union leader, […]

Will Toaspern is a senior researcher for the Green Economy Program. His research is primarily focused on supporting the Green Empowerment Zone (GEZ) initiative in Contra Costa County, which will help advance a high-road clean energy economy in the region. Before becoming full-time staff, Will was a graduate student researcher in the Green Economy Program, […]