Archive: Student Leaders

• Apply for Worker Justice DC Alternative Spring Break 2016

  Led by our awesome trip leaders Laura Fairman and Lily Ryan, students on WJDC 2016 will immerse themselves in the DC community to work, learn, and reflect in solidarity with workers, community organiz

  Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC Tags: Alternative Spring Break, Applications, Center for Social Justice, Fair Food, Jess Chilin, Laura Fairman, Lily Ryan, Worker Justice DC

• DC Schools Project Practices True Student-Worker Solidarity

  [caption id="attachment_3090" align="aligncenter" width="885"] Katherine Leopold (SFS '18) with Tackie Memuna, a long-serving Facilities worker at Georgetown.[/caption] Anastasia Sendoun (COL '18) an

  Category: Student Leaders Tags: Alexa Pereda, Anastasia Sendoun, Center for Social Justice, Citizenship, CSJ, DC Schools Project, ESL, Georgetown University, Jesuit Values, Just Employment Policy, Student-Worker Solidarity

• Clara Mejía reports on #Encuentro2015

  Clara Mejía Orta (COL '17) reflects on her experience attending the Student/Farmworker Alliance’s annual Encuentro in fall 2015. We at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor were gl

  Categories: In the News, Student Leaders Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Student Farmworker Alliance

• WCP: A New Leader for Labour in the UK

  We are very proud that John Russo, our Visiting Scholar for the 2015-16 academic year, brings the renowned Working-Class Perspectives blog to the Kalmanovitz Initiative. The blog is edited by Jo

  Categories: In the News, Student Leaders Tags: Jeremy Corbyn, John Russo, Labour Party, Tim Strangleman, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• Meet Our 2016 Worker Justice DC Leaders

  Even though the school year just began, two students are already hard at work planning our 2016 Worker Justice DC Alternative Break trip! Meet Laura Fairman and Lily Ryan, both of whom were particip

  Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC

• Reflecting on a Summer with ONE DC

  This summer, Georgetown students Kevin Ruano and Mia Campbell worked as apprentice organizers with our friends at ONE DC through the Kalmanovitz Initiative Summer Organizing Internship. Kevin and Mi

  Categories: Organizing Internship, Student Leaders

• A Student's Reflection from Worker Justice DC

  Last month, the Kalmanovitz Initiative’s Worker Justice DC alternative spring break trip participated in a walking tour of the Shaw neighborhood with our friends at ONE DC. Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney

  Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC

• Introducing Our 2015 Summer Organizing Interns

  The Kalmanovitz Initiative is excited to welcome the following five students to our Summer Organizing Internship! Mia Campbell and Kevin Ruano will work with ONE DC, Clara Mejia will work with the DC

  Categories: Organizing Internship, Student Leaders

• A Student's Reflection on a ONE DC Walking Tour

  This month, the Kalmanovitz Initiative's Worker Justice DC alternative spring break trip participated in a walking tour of the Shaw neighborhood with our friends at ONE DC. Barbara Anne Kozee, a sopho

  Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC

• Finding My Voice: Yanely Perez on a Summer with DC Jobs with Justice

  Yanely Perez (COL '17) reflects on her experience with the Kalmanovitz Initiative Summer Organizing Internship in 2014. Apply for the 2015 Summer Organizing Internship by Friday, March 6! My time w

  Categories: Organizing Internship, Student Leaders