Senior Lead Organizer
CurrentOur public dollars are our most powerful tool to shape a better future for workers. Jobs to Move America combines strategic research, policy advocacy, and coalition organizing to harness the power of our public dollars to create good jobs and healthy communities across the country.WE RESEARCH.Our research team is shaping the ideas and practices we need to build a just economy, and to guide our policy advocacy and strategic organizing. JMA’s research that defines policy and decision-making around emerging industries like clean school buses. We also work with academic institutions to conduct surveys of workers and communities that help illuminate the conditions in and around factories owned by global corporations that receive extensive public subsidies and contracts.Good Jobs PoliciesWe advocate for policies that create good jobs and lift labor standards for workers across the country. Our signature good jobs and equity policy tool, the U.S. Employment Plan, has been used by cities and states across the country.Transparency and Sunshine PoliciesWe advocate for transparency policies that give the public greater oversight over our public dollars. We are working to reshape sunshine policies in multiple states and developing innovative policy to require tech companies receiving public subsidies to commit to “purchasing for the common good” requirements and Technology Impact Assessments.WE ORGANIZE.We put power back in the hands of workers and communities by organizing coalitions to win Community Benefits Agreements.CBAs are legally binding commitments between coalitions and employers that guarantee living wages, apprenticeship programs, protections for workers’ right to organize, and race- and gender-based equity measures, including commitments to hire, train, and create access to jobs for people who face barriers to employment.
