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TWO CUNY SLU Students Make City & State’s 2021 Labor 40 Under 40 List
City & State’s Labor 40 Under 40 highlights an impressive array of rising stars in labor and this year the list includes two CUNY SLU students: Olando Marlon Charles who is pursuing a certificate in Labor Relations and Bradley Kolb, a student in the master’s in labor studies program. Olando works as the CHOW program
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Behind the Camera with Tsering Lama: Documenting Domestic Workers’ Fight for Rights
Tsering Lama knows something about story-telling. Perhaps that’s because she herself has quite a story to tell. Tsering is a Tibetan refugee, born and raised in Nepal. She came to the U.S. in 2008 hoping to work in health care, and studied psychology while supporting herself as a domestic worker. “Basically, I’ve been working and
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Haley Shaffer Builds a Career in the Labor Movement (with a little help from the SLU network)
Haley Shaffer has been fighting for workers’ rights—including her own—for quite a while. But she says she’s just getting started. Haley moved from the Milwaukee area to New York City in 2014 for an internship at a non-profit organization, StoryCorps, and later took a staff position. “My coworkers and I were dealing with a toxic
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Kayleigh Truman’s Journey to Broadway, and Beyond
Kayleigh Truman was destined for the spotlight. Not in it: the person behind it, running the show. Kayleigh grew up in the theatre. “My parents met at a famous old vaudeville house, Proctor’s in Schenectady, New York, so they always called me a ‘Product of Proctor’s.’ My dad got his union card when I was


