Spring Conference Participants (2009)

Keynote Speaker

Guillermo Linares: Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs

Featured Panelists

Janice Fine: Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University, and Senior Fellow for Organizing and Policy at the Center for Community Change
Devesh Kapur: Professor for the Study of Contemporary India and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania
Michael Piore: Professor of Economics and Political Economy and Director of the MIT-Mexico Program for the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Workshop Speakers

Ana Maria Archila: Executive Director, Latin American Integration Center and leading member of Make the Road New York
Bhairavi Desai: Executive Director & Co-Founder, New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA)
Victoria Hattam: Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, New School
Hector Figueroa: Secretary-Treasurer of 32BJ Service Employees International Union
Saru Jayaraman: Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center-United (ROC-U), and Co-Founder, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY)
Fekkak Mamdouh: Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center-United (ROC-U), and Co-Founder, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY)
Maritsa Poros: Professor of Sociology, City College, CUNY
Javaid Tariq: Executive Director, New York Construction Workers United (NYCWU), and Co-Founder, New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA)
Haeyoung Yoon: Executive Director, Organizing Asian Communities (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence)