EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Kimberly Freeman Brown
Executive Director

Kimberly Freeman Brown is Executive Director of American Rights at Work. Prior to taking leadership of the organization in Nov. 2009, she served as the group’s Deputy Director, helping the organization significantly diversify its funding and play a prominent role in workers' rights legislative efforts. Previously, Freeman Brown was the Communications Director of American Rights at Work and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, and served the progressive community as an organizer and communications strategist for more than a decade.

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David Bonior
Chair

David Bonior is the Chair of American Rights at Work’s Board of Directors and has served in this role since the organization’s founding in 2003. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, he served Michigan’s Macomb and St. Clair Counties for 26 years—the longest tenure of any Congressman from this district. When he retired at the end of 2002, he had held the position of Democratic Whip, the second ranking Democrat in the House, for 10 years.

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ADMINISTRATION

Reese Jimenez
Office Manager

COMMUNICATIONS

Liz Cattaneo
Communications Director

Zoe Bridges-Curry
Press Secretary

Hilary Woodward
Online Advocacy and Social Media Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Alicia Daly
Director of Finance and Development

Nico Gittings
Accounting and Human Resources Manager

Ori Korin
Deputy Director of Development 

Susan Van Dyke
Development Associate and Assistant to the Executive Director

RESEARCH

Erin Johansson

Director of Research

Erin Johansson has worked as a Research Associate for American Rights at Work since 2004. Her recent publications include "Checking Out: The Rise of Wal-Mart and the Fall of Middle Class Retail Jobs" in the Connecticut Law Review, and two American Rights at Work reports, Fed Up With FedEx: How FedEx Ground Tramples Workers’ Rights and Civil Rights, and Broken Promises: Verizon neglects its commitment to provide good jobs and quality service. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Maryland College Park, and a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Erin is a member of the Labor and Employment Relations Association and as serves as a Co-Chair of the Labor Studies Committee, and is a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

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Ryan Lamare
Research Analyst

Michael Wasser
Research and Communications Associate