In this conversation with Lauren Jacobs from PowerSwitch Action, the discussion focuses on the role of worker power in combating authoritarianism.
Lauren Jacobs
As the Executive Director of PowerSwitch Action, Lauren Jacobs’s mission is to ensure that this amazing network of organizations and staff achieves its purpose: making multiracial feminist democracy a reality.
Lauren is a committed organizer and has dedicated her life to supporting working people as they gain power to shape their own working and living conditions. She began organizing factories with UNITE in the South and later joined SEIU. During her 17 years at SEIU she served in a number of roles, from organizer to local union Vice President. Right before starting at PowerSwitch , Lauren was with the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) as the organization’s National Organizing Director.
She joined PowerSwitch Action (then the Partnership for Working Families) in 2016.
