Board & Advisory Council

Board of Directors
Advisory Council

Board of Directors

  • Bill Fletcher (President)
    Director of Field Services, American Federation of Government Employees
  • John Cavanagh (Vice President)
    Director, Institute for Policy Studies
  • Christopher Townsend (Secretary)
    Washington Staff, United Electrical Workers
  • Cameron Duncan (Treasurer)
    Public Services International, US (retired)
  • Bama Athreya
    Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum  
  • Arturo Alcalde Justiniani (International Affairs Director, National Association of Democratic Lawyers of Mexico)
  • May Chen (Vice President, Workers United)
  • Lance Compa (School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University)
  • Joe Curnow (Former National Coordinator, United Students for Fair Trade)
  • Ken Grossinger (CrossCurrents Foundation)
  • Sarita Gupta (Executive Director, Jobs with Justice)
  • Mark Harrison (United Methodist Church)
  • Yvette Pena-Lopes (Blue Green Alliance)
  • Katie Quan (Labor Specialist, Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California at Berkeley)
  • Jeff Rechenbach (Vice President, Communications Workers of America)
  • Carol Rosenblatt (Executive Director, Coalition of Labor Union Women)
  • Omar Salazar (ASEPROLA in Costa Rica)
  • Kailash Satyarthi (President, South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude, New Dehli, India)
  • Representative Jan Schakowsky (U.S. House of Representatives (D-IL))
  • Dan Smith, ILRF General Counsel (O'Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, P.C.)
  • Jill Tucker (Senior Program Officer, Lemelson Foundation)

Advisory Council

  • Bishop Jesse De Witt (President Emeritus)
    United Methodist Church
  • Ray Marshall (President Emeritus)
    U.S. Secretary of Labor (1977-81), Professor, University of Texas at Austin
  • Peggy Billings (United Methodist Church)
  • Robin Broad (Professor, American University)
  • Anita Chan (Senior Researcher, Australian Research Council, Australian National University)
  • Audrey Chapman (Director, Human Rights Program, American Assn. for the Advancement of Science)
  • Steve Charnovitz (Attorney, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering)
  • Sarah Cleveland (University of Texas at Austin School of Law)
  • Terry Collingsworth (Conrad & Scherer)
  • Rep. Lane Evans (previous U.S. House of Representatives (D-IL))
  • Keith Geiger (President, National Education Association)
  • Jim Hightower (Commentator)
  • John H. Hovis (President, United Electrical Workers)
  • Kjeld Jakobsen (International Secretary, City Government of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
  • Somsak Kosaisook (General Secretary, State Enterprise Worker Relations Confederation, Thailand)
  • Atherton Martin (Director, The Development Institute, Dominica, West Indies)
  • Muchtar Pakpahan (President, Indonesian Prosperity Workers' Union (SBSI), Indonesia)
  • Rep. Bernie Sanders (U.S. House of Representatives (I-VT))
  • Peter Weiss (Center for Constitutional Rights)
  • Robert White (President, Center for International Policy)