Educational Representative
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center at
Placid Harbor - Hollywood, Maryland

Teaching, researching, material development, and coordination of week-long, residential labor education and leadership programs for Union members and staff. Classes include Organizing programs, Company Research, Workplace Communication, Union Ethics, English and Spanish Leadership programs, and Pension programs.

Special Representative
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Grand Lodge Organizing Department - Nashville, Tennessee

Developed and responded to organizing leads falling under the National Labor Relations Act in both union and open shop environments. Assisted Local Lodge organizing committees to develop internal organizing campaigns within the federal government sector. Provided housecalling and organizing training to Local Lodges.

Apprentice Organizer
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Grand Lodge Organizing Department - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Assisted Grand Lodge Representative in developing and responding to organizing leads under the National Labor Relations Board and National Mediation Board. Participated in and helped to plan organizing campaigns throughout the country.

Employment and Training Specialist
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Labor Education and Training Center
Milwaukee HIRE Center - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Managed a caseload of dislocated workers receiving services under the Workforce Investment Act in Milwaukee County. Case manager for the Center's limited-English Asian and European immigrant dislocated workers. Recruited for and provided case management for CNC training pilot project for limited-English Hmong workers. Coordinated the Center's weekly job club.

Environmental Health Department Program Assistant
Sixteenth Street Community Health Clinic
Public Allies, Americorp - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Managed a caseload of dislocated workers receiving services under the Workforce Investment Act in Milwaukee County. Case manager for the Center's limited-English Asian and European immigrant dislocated workers. Recruited for and provided case management for CNC training pilot project for limited-English Hmong workers. Coordinated the Center's weekly job club.

IAMAW William W. Winpisinger Labor Education and Technology Training Center - Hollywood, Maryland

Certificates of completion for: Women's Basic Leadership Training, Leadership I, Service Contract Act, Comprehensive Training, Union Growth For Local Lodge Leaders, Orientation and Basic Skills, and Collective Bargaining.

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics classes
Milwaukee Area Technical College - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Bachelor of Arts Degree
Major: Political Science
Minor: Latin American Studies
Grinnell College - Grinnell, Iowa

1996 to 2000. Co-founder of RISE, student activist group.
1999 to 2000. Grinnell Coalition of Students Against Sweatshops.
Summer 1999. Independent Research. Dominican Republic
Summer 1998. Grinnell College Rosenfield Summer Internship.
Adrian Dominican Base Communities. Dominican Republic.

IAMAW Local Lodge 66 Member - Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Contributed to newsletter with articles in Spanish and English.

Council for Latin American Advancement Member.
Summer 2004 helped to organize LCLAA information session for IAMAW Union members.

Labor in the Pulpits. Faith Community For Worker Justice - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

IAMAW Grand Lodge Convention delegate.

Local Lodge by-laws committee member.

Local Lodge Delegate to Wisconsin Legalization Coalition.

Saint Benedict the Moor Parish Council Member - Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Saint Benedict the Moor Social Concerns Committee Member - Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Voces de la Frontera Immigrant Workers' Center Member. 2002 - 2003 Served on the Center's Coordinating Committee -Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

English, Spanish