Kim Fellner
Associate Director |
Working America
Kim Fellner is associate director of Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Starting out at SEIU in the distant 1970s, she worked at the Screen Actors Guild and directed the National Writers Union, before helping to found and direct the National Organizers Alliance. She wrote a book about Starbucks and believes organizing is improved by chocolate.
Presentations from Facing Race 2012
Building a 21st Century Labor Movement
This panel will take a wide view look at what is required to build real and lasting worker power in this country. Panelists will address the ways in which labor organizing is growing and declining, discuss what we've learned from the last decade of work by community worker centers and labor unions and consider the effect of race and gender lenses on organizing strategy.
Speakers: Dorian Warren, Kim Fellner, Ai-jen Poo, Saket Soni, James Thindwa