The Catholic Labor Network is a 501c3 association of Catholic labor union members and Catholic clergy, religious and lay activists committed to worker justice. In partnership with the AFL-CIO and several international labor unions, the Catholic Labor Network organizes support in the Catholic community for workers and organized labor. Accomplishments included:1. Handling all administrative responsibilities for operating a nonprofit organization, including:o Recruiting the board of directors and securing 501c3 status for the organizationo Preparing budgets, managing payroll and benefitso Collecting dues and maintaining membership records o Writing two successful grants and fundraising from supporterso Organizing the annual conference2. Managing all communication responsibilities of the organization, including:o Creating and updating the organization’s websiteo Writing/distributing the weekly e-newslettero Organizing and hosting meetings and webinarso Preparing legislative alertso Working with reporters to generate earned media coverageo Preparing articles for publication in media outlets3. Boosting paid membership from fifty to over two hundred and subscriber list from fewer than five hundred to nearly five thousand4. Organizing affiliated priests to certify union card check elections5. Leading public campaigns in support of workers seeking to organize a union or bargain a just contract6. Conducting a major study of wage theft in the Washington DC Construction sector

CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training is a unique 501c3 organization launched by the construction labor organizations to advance safety and health in the American construction industry. CPWR’s $15 million annual budget supports an extensive university-based research consortium focused on occupational health and public policy, and a training operation delivering OSHA-certified safety and health instruction to up to 100,000 construction workers each year.As Communications Associate and now Communications Research Manager, my duties have included:• Working with CPWR’s leadership to develop a list of strategically critical audiences, and developing measurable indicators of reach in those audiences to assess progress toward defined goals• Combining outreach by web, email, print, social media and direct mail to build a contact database of more than 6000 opinion leaders from those critical audiences• Employing survey research, marketing data, and digital indicators to determine the occupational safety and health needs, preferences and practices of each target audience• Working with the Executive Director and Department of Research to Practice (r2p) to publish a monthly electronic newsletter on construction safety and health for the opinion leaders identified above, one that has earned more than 5,500 subscribers and an industry-leading “open rate” above 30%• Using targeted outreach to boost trade press coverage of CPWR research, products and activities from fewer than 10 mentions per year prior to FY2011 to more than 60 in FY2017• Conducting a study testing the readability and suitability of construction safety and health materials to learn which formats were most effective for construction worker audiences• Performing a content analysis of mass media stories covering of construction fatalities, to identify opportunities to promote occupational safety and health messages

Teaching an Introductory Research Methods class to Adult Learners. The class covers both qualitative and quantitative research methods, introductions to statistics and historical research methods, use of government and corporate documents, and design of a research plan.

Hired by the International President to create a Strategic Campaigns Department for the ATU, including an extensive rebuild the ATU Research Department. Major achievements of the department over two years included:1. Consolidating wage and benefit data for over 470 ATU and other collective bargaining agreements in a single, readily searchable database that is now the most comprehensive source of information on this in the industry. This resource allows the union to prepare the 260 ATU locals for contract bargaining and to analyze public-private, regional, and submarket patterns in wages and benefits for bus operators and related crafts.2. Mapping the extent of private contracting in the urban mass transit industry. Project included collecting over 100 revenue contracts between public agencies and private transit, paratransit and student transportation providers and entering contract details and union status into a strategic research database to inform collective bargaining and strategic new member organizing.3. Coordinating two successful contract campaigns. Shuttle drivers at University of Alabama who had been stalled for a year in first contract negotiations with multinational FirstGroup cooperated with student supporters and secured a 14% first-year raise; Greyhound drivers in Eastern Canada preserved the last defined-benefit pension in the Greyhound system despite an attempted employer lockout.4. Working with International Union Executive Officers to draw up union strategic plan for ATU contract campaigns and new member organizing targets.5. Recruiting, training and supervising staff of two researchers and one field-based internal organizer/strategic campaigner.6. Preparing and delivering multiple presentations to local union officers and activists on strategic campaigns.

Project Director, Mid-Atlantic Laborers’ and Employers’ Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET)/ Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizing Coalition (MAROC), 2002-2009. Projects included:1. ASTRACOR Executive Director. Established ASTRACOR, the Asociacion de Trabajadores de Construccion Residencial (Residential Construction Workers’ Association). Recruited board of political, labor, business and community leaders to establish association to train and advocate for residential construction workers in Northern Virginia. Obtained over $500,000 in grant funding from multiple sources; incorporated, and obtained 501c3 determination from IRS; established an innovative workforce training program noted in the Washington Post, El Tiempo Latino, and various community newspapers. 2. Political Director, Laborers Local 11 (Alexandria). Worked with union members and officers to develop political priority list and candidate questionnaires, create Laborers Local 11 PAC, canvass in state and local elections, and set up correspondence and meetings with elected officials to present our views.3. Market and Policy Researcher, Mid-Atlantic Laborers’ Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET). Performed construction market research on behalf of union officers and union signatory contractors in the mid-Atlantic region, tracking construction activity and bids. Also performed policy research – for example, supporting procurement policy reform to promote quality construction and local workforce development.4. Communications, Laborers’ Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. Wrote and edited various publications directed to union members explaining union policies and activities and building support for union goals; authored or co-authored multiple press releases and op-eds for use by union officers to promote union views. (Samples available upon request.)