Archive: Lane Windham

• WCP: Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity

  Pundits use ‘working class’ as a shorthand for white blue-collar men, but the American worker today is just as likely to be a woman of color in the service or healthcare industry. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Lane Windham makes the case for promoting women’s leadership in the labor movement and introduces an ambitious project seeking to do just that.

  Categories: Visiting Scholars, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: CIWO, Economic Justice, Feminism, Georgetown, John Russo, KI, Lane Windham, Rutgers, Scheduling, Sherry Linkon, WCP, WILL Empower, Women, Women Innovating Labor Leadership, Working-Class Perspectives

• Kalmanovitz Initiative to Help Build New Generation of Women’s Labor Leadership

  Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor will identify, nurture, train and convene a new generation of diverse, female labor leaders in a collaborative effort with Rutgers

  Category: Our Staff Tags: AFL-CIO, Berger-Marks Foundation, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Feminism, Georgetown University, Grants, Immigration, Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Labor Movement, Lane Windham, Linda Foley, Liz Shuler, Marilyn Sneiderman, Racial Justice, Rutgers University, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, WILL Empower, Women, Women's Leadership, Worker Justice

• Women in Labor and Community Organizing at Georgetown

  In partnership with the Georgetown Women’s Alliance, the Kalmanovitz Initiative hosted a discussion that addressed women’s leadership in labor and community organizing. The event aimed to encourage, inspire, and offer substantive ideas to women in the Georgetown community who are interested in social justice organizing and activism.

  Categories: Events, Student Leaders Tags: Alumni, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Community Organizing, DC Fair Food, Erin Riordan, Georgetown Women's Alliance, GWA, Karina Lopez, Labor, Lane Windham, Maria Ochoa, Organizing, Sarah Vazquez, SEIU Local 1199, Showing Up for Racial Justice, SURJ, Taylor Griffin, UFCW Local 400, Women

• Introducing Our New Fellow, Lane Windham

  We are delighted to share with you that Lane Windham is joining the Kalmanovitz Initiative as a fellow. In her capacity as fellow, Lane will be helping the KI map out a program focusing on women and

  Categories: Our Staff, People Tags: AFL-CIO, Labor and Research Action, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Labor History, Labor Women Project, Lane Windham, LAWCHA, LRAN, Staff