Erica Smiley
Adjunct Faculty @Cuny School Of Labor And Urban Studies
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WORK HISTORY
Adjunct Faculty @Cuny School Of Labor And Urban Studies
NY, US
Issues in Organizing The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU) offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Labor Studies and Urban Studies that are designed to meet the needs of working adults as well as traditional-age college students who seek to learn more about the challenges confronting poor and working class populations in the workplace and in the community. It also collaborates with other units of CUNY to offer a range of college-credit programs designed to give workers the academic and technical skills they need for professional advancement. Its faculty includes distinguished scholars in the social sciences as well as expert practitioners in government, labor, and public service. In addition to its academic programs, SLU sponsors research; organizes forums and conferences; and publishes a national journal, New Labor Forum: A journal of ideas, analysis, and debate.
EDUCATION
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government
ABOUT ERICA SMILEY
Erica Smiley is the executive director of Jobs With Justice. A long-time organizer and movement leader, Smiley has been spearheading strategic organizing and policy interventions for Jobs With Justice for nearly 20 years. Serving as one of the lead architects, Smiley has been instrumental in developing the strategic vision of Jobs With Justice to build power for impacted working people through expanding their collective bargaining power as one way to redefine and claim their democracy, while addressing issues of inequality and poverty. She has authored several related articles in the New Labor Forum, Dissent Magazine, the Journal on Class, Race and Corporate Power, and other publications lifting strategic organizing, movement building, direct action, and discourse as core strategies for advancing work in this arena. As one of the few queer black women leaders in the labor movement, Smiley has helped to seed numerous initiatives that position and prioritize the demands and voices of vulnerable working people in socio-economic and political decisions that directly and indirectly impact their individual lives, families, and communities. As a seasoned organizer she has been a vocal advocate for mobilizing our movements to be aligned around a common agenda for working families.Her passion for advancing innovations that prioritize the South is evident on the boards she serves on today and in the past which includes the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center, based in Tennessee, a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South being part of the leadership council of the Workers Defense Project based in Texas. She is on the board of the SEIU Education and Support Fund, the Workers Lab, and she participates in the Bargaining for the Common Good advisory committee. Smiley was recently named Will Empower Fellow with Rutgers and is currently co-authoring a book on bargaining and working people democracy with Sarita Gupta.Smiley is originally from Greensboro, N.C. where she is a proud product of public schools. She currently resides in New Jersey where alongside her partner, Amanda and their daughter.
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