Alan Iijima is the grants and contracts manager of the Labor Center. Alan has nearly two decades of nonprofit fundraising and community outreach experience and most recently served as the development and finance manager of the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. In this position, he developed and implemented the Human Rights Center’s fundraising programs and […]

Josh Sonnenfeld comes to the UC Berkeley Labor Center from the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), where he served as Senior California Strategist. At BGA, Josh facilitated the groundbreaking Contra Costa Refinery Transition Partnership, a labor and environmental justice partnership advancing just transition and high road economic development in response to oil refinery closures. He is an […]

Anamilena joined the UC Berkeley Labor Center as a Program Coordinator for the Labor-Management Partnerships Program. Anamilena is originally from Colombia and has been in the U.S. for over 25 years. She has worked at AFSCME, and served as an executive assistant to Kaiser Permanente’s Labor Management Partnership Vice President and other executives.

Ellen Love focuses on strengthening local and state labor law enforcement, working directly with labor enforcement agencies as well as their community-based partners. Ellen has 10 years of hands-on experience implementing local labor laws with the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement. Ellen facilitated outreach on new labor laws, led data collection and analysis, […]

Sean Bertram brings over 20 years of experience in political organizing, nonprofit leadership, and organizational operations. He currently supports the California Workplace Outreach Project by helping community-based organizations deliver education around workers’ rights, wage protections, and workplace safety. Sean has a long history of working with diverse communities to build inclusive outreach strategies and strengthen […]

Karen recently joined the UC Berkeley Labor Center, bringing over eight years of experience in program administration and collaborative project leadership. In her previous roles at UC Berkeley, Karen enjoyed supporting diverse teams of students, researchers, staff and industry partners dedicated to student development and advancing cutting edge research in the biological sciences. At the […]

Sierra Barton-Peterson (they/them) brings seven years of experience educating in and collaborating with a diverse array of Bay Area communities. As a classroom educator, Sierra centered student experiences as well as racial and social justice in their classroom, including through leading the student research and advocacy project behind their school’s renaming. Most recently, Sierra oversaw […]

Mishal Khan is a senior researcher in the Technology and Work Program. With a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago, she was trained as a historical sociologist examining legacies of both slavery and abolition, the intersections of race and capitalism, and global political economy and empire. Mishal’s work leverages an in-depth understanding […]

Elizabeth Avila is a graduate of UC Davis with a BA in sociology and political science. Her first glimpse into the labor movement was in 2019 as an AFSCME Union Scholar where she spent a summer with unionized child care providers in Rochester, New York. After participating in Labor Summer ’21, Elizabeth worked as a […]

Katie Miles is a labor organizer with nearly a decade and a half of on-the-ground organizing experience. She has organized with educators, health care workers, and low-wage service workers. Before joining the Labor Center, Katie was most recently with United Teachers Los Angeles, where she spent four years organizing K-12 educators. At UTLA, she was […]