NJFAC - Key Persons
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- Retired Educator, Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives Vice Chair, House Government Operations Committee, on House
Barbara Cooper, retired educator, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives; Vice Chair, House Government Operations Committee, on House: Children and Family Affairs Committee, Education Committee, Family Justice Subcommittee, and Higher Education Subcommittee; a community leader with the Copper Coalition and the Jobs For All Network; instrumental in winning the endorsement of HR 1000 Jobs For All Act by National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), Ph.D. in Religious Philosophy and Christian Psychology.
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Leisure Studies, University of Iowa
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- Chief Drafter of the Employment Act of 1946 & Humphrey - Hawkins
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Co - Founder and Exec. Director, Why Hunger
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- Programs Director, Consumer Reports
- Vice - Chair and Legislative Committee
Chuck Bell, Programs Director, Consumer Reports; working closely with Consumers Reports' advocacy team in California, New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C. on a wide range of consumer policy issues, including health care, financial services, energy, telecommunications, and the environment.
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Leg. Director, Americans for Democratic Action
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- Professor of Social Policy, Brandeis University
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
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- Senior Economist, Center for Economic & Policy Research
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
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- Director, Trade Union Program, Harvard University
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Economics, Sarah Lawrence College
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Emeritus Professor, History, CSU - Dominguez Hills
Bich Ha Pham, policy analysis and strategic advocacy NYC and NYS; former Director of Policy, NYC Public Advocate's Office, worked with NJFAC on NYC Jobs for All legislation, campaigns to create transitional jobs as Director of Policy, Advocacy and Research at the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; Executive Director, Hunger Action Network, NYS; extensive media experience.
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Economics, Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon ( Eugene )
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- Assoc. Editor, Public Employee
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Public Policy, Concordia Univ. ( Canada ) International Research Group on Employment
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Chairman, Coalition for Abolition of the Death Penalty
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Columbia University past President, American Sociology Association
Hon. Augustus Hawkins, US Congress, House, co-author, Humphrey/Hawkins "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978"
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
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- President Emeritus, Amalgamated, Clothing Workers of America, AFL - CIO
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- Director, Harlem Fight Back
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Austin
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- Chairman ( Emeritus ), Council for a Livable World
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of New South Wales, Australia
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Exec. Dir, Labor Network for Sustainability, & Former Director, Strategic Campaigns, AFL - CIO
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor, Sociology, Boston College
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor, School of Social Work, Univ. of Connecticut
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- Founder, Alternative Economic Policy for Europe
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor, Sociology, Princeton University
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Director, Center for Labor Research & Education., UCLA
Hon. Augustus Hawkins, US Congress, House, co-author, Humphrey/Hawkins "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978"
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- President, EPI, Co - Author, the State of Working America
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- National Outreach Coordinator
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Health Policy and Mgt, Johns Hopkins University
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- Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri - Kansas City
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Economics, Cal. State University, San Bernardino
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
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- Exec. Dir., Greater New York Labor
Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Exec. Dir., Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition; served on staff of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change; currently on the boards of the Rural and Migrant Ministry, the Bertram M. Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty at Fordham University, and Metropolitan New York Religious Campaign against Torture.
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economic and Public Affairs, University of Texas and Former US Secretary of Labor
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- Staff Attorney, New Economy Project
Raúl Carrillo, Staff Attorney, New Economy Project; former Special Counsel to the Enforcement Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Modern Money Network, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, ClassCrits, and APPEAL (Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law); research focuses on financial justice and full employment, most notably a constitutional right to a job.
Rev. Dr. Douglas Grote, pastor; psychotherapist; writer on theological, psychological and evolutionary roots of evolutionary economics; long- time activist for social justice.
Rev. Glencie Rhedrick, associate minister, First Baptist Church-West, Charlotte, N.C.; local and national community activist, former president, Mecklenburg Ministries; member of the executive board, United Missionary Baptist Association (UMBA). Nationally, Rep. Rhedrick serves on the following boards: Justice Action Mobilization Network (JAMN); People Demanding Action (PDA) and Truth, Reconciliation & Anti-Poverty Commission (TRAC); hosts a national Blogtalk radio show on the PDA Network.
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- President Emeritus, Consumers Union
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- President, AFL - CIO
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- Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Former Secretary of Labor Former Secretary of Labor
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- Co - Founder, Economists Allied Against the Arms Race
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Co - Director, Political Economy Research Ctr. & Professor of Economics, UMASS / Amherst
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- Fellow at Cornell Law School
Rohan Grey, doctoral fellow at Cornell Law School exploring the intersection of law, technology, and political economics; president of the Modern Money Network, research scholar with the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a technical consultant with eCurrency Mint Ltd., and an ambassador for the FreedomBox Foundation; practiced law as a child advocate in family court; conducted legal and policy research for Americans for the Arts, the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, and the New York City Department of Education, and authored a book chapter titled "Who Owns the Intellectual Fruits of Job Guarantee Labor?" in M. Forstater & M. Murray (Eds.), (2017), The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory.
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- Critic of the Permanent War Economy / Rudolf Meidner
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Social Policy, SUNY - Stony Brook
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Sociology, Hunter College
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- Critic of the Permanent War Economy / Rudolf Meidner
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Lawyer and Historian
Stephen Monroe Tomczak , Assoc. Prof. of Social Welfare Policy & Community Organization at the Southern Connecticut State University Department of Social Work. Dr. Tomczak has an extensive background in social work education and research, particularly in the areas of social welfare policy, poverty and economic inequality, and the history of social work and social welfare. His publications and conference presentations on these topics include the use of full employment policy as an anti-poverty strategy.
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
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- Professor of Law and Public Finance, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
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- Chairman, Puerto Rican Studies, Brooklyn College
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- Secretary / Treasurer, San Francisco Central Labor Council
William (Bill) Barclay had a distinguished career in financial services, including service on the boards of the Illinois Finance Authority and the Chicago Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. A leader in progressive activism since the 1960s, he is a founding member of Democratic Socialists of America and of the Chicago Political Economy Group, closely affiliated with NJFAN. He has published extensively on economic issues, including the 2008 financial crisis, job creation, and recently on the political economy impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- President, United University Professions, NYS
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Professor of Social Policy, Harvard University
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
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- Member of the NJFAN Advisory Board
- Chairman, Economic Policy Com., ADA