Staff

Matthew has worked in the labor movement for fifteen years, including with minority unions in the South, healthcare workers in Pennsylvania, and strategic campaigns to take on private equity employers. He has expertise in pensions, retirement, and health care benefits, as well as capital markets. As an investigative journalist, has has extensively covered labor, Wall Street, and campaign finance, and has been a contributor to The Intercept, The Lever, and The American Prospect, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Jacobin, In These Times, among other publications.

(802) 275-8863
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Isabela began working with Labor Education Service and Workday Magazine in 2022. She grew up in Oak Park, Illinois and earned her B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul in International Studies. Isabela worked as a Communications Organizer at Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL) in Minneapolis for three years. Along with her professional work, Isabela has a shared art studio in St. Paul where she works on short films, photographs, and other artistic projects. She enjoys watching movies, reading, bike rides, hiking Minnesota’s beautiful landscapes year-round, exploring antique stores, and spending time with loved ones.

708-557-1119
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Indira is a proud Nicaraguan immigrant whose career has been guided by a deep commitment to social justice. She began her journey in Nicaragua's feminist movement and has since worked alongside organizations and communities across Central America and the United States to advance leadership development, popular education, and community organizing. As an organizer with Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL), she supported campaigns for workers' rights and led leadership development and member training initiatives. She is also the co-founder of the Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity (CCDS) and Learning to Transform, two organizations dedicated to strengthening leadership and building the capacity of communities to create meaningful social change. Indira believes deeply in the power of people to transform their realities by building strong, connected communities. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring new places, hiking in the woods, and spending time with her husband and their two children.

612-626-1633
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Sarah has been a journalist for 10 years, covering U.S. militarism, climate, and labor. She joins the LES team from In These Times, where she was a web editor and reporter for five years. Sarah got her start reporting with the Independent Media Centers that emerged as part of the global justice movement. She also has a background in organizing workers and mobilizing against U.S. wars. Sarah lives in Chicago, where she documents labor struggles in the Midwest, and examines how U.S. militarism and climate change affect poor and working people around the world.

217-816-2918
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Amy has been a labor educator at the Labor Education Service since 2015. She has taught classes on a wide range of topics for union members and other workers, including steward trainings and courses on collective bargaining, grievance handling/contract enforcement, labor history, labor law, union leadership, and internal organizing. Additionally, Amy has taught and co-taught classes on Janus and right-to-work; racial justice in the union; the history of race and labor in the U.S.; labor and other social movements; and labor and mass incarceration. Amy has a particular interest in working with unions and workers who are struggling toward racial, gender, and disability justice in their workplaces and unions.
Prior to joining the LES, Amy worked as an internal organizer and representative for two teachers’ unions in Illinois:
GEO, IFT/AFT Local 6300; and GEO, IFT/AFT Local 6297

612-624-1602
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Josh's interest in journalism started during the pandemic when he was part of a Chicago-based cooperative art gallery. During the transition from having a physical space to operating virtually, he was responsible for copyediting and co-publishing submissions to the gallery's quarterly magazine. He later interned at In These Times doing fact-checking and research work before bringing these experiences to Workday Magazine. His other interests include jogging, discussing philosophy, and cooking for family and friends.

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Rocki is a white Brazilian butch dyke who came to the United States in the late 80s, fell in love with women and rice krispies treats (not necessarily in that order) and decided to stay. Most of her community organizing work has focused on queer/trans youth, homelessness, and intersectional social justice movements. Most of her personal work has focused on being a loving friend, partner, ex-partner, anti-racist community member, and parent. On a good day she does some of these things well. Rocki is a youth worker at heart and has a long history with the GLBT Host Home Program (now ConneQT), which she helped start in 1997. She was honored for her work with a True Leadership Award by the True Colors Fund in September 2015.  She is excited to join LES and be part of its fierce commitment to labor and workers!

612-625-2316
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Amie has worked for the Labor Education Service since 2020 and was born in and raised in suburban and rural Minnesota. She studied journalism, art, and anthropology at the University of Minnesota, where she also graduated with a master’s degree in heritage studies and public history in 2025. She researches art, media, and education created by and for working people and their social justice movements, and is interested in collective action and organizing that brings us together to protect our communities and the planet. Her writing can be found in LES’s Workday Magazine, The Real News Network, In These Times, and Minnesota Women’s Press. Her hobbies include poetry and collaging, and spending time outdoors and in creative spaces.

612-625-2314
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