Jennifer Sherer is currently director of the Labor Center. She teaches classes on a range of subjects, including steward education, organizing and mobilizing, collective bargaining, labor communications, labor and employment law (particularly the Family and Medical Leave Act ), and public policy issues. She first joined the Labor Center in May, 2002, and was appointed as a full-time permanent labor educator in January of 2005. Prior to joining the Labor Center staff, she taught for four years as a graduate instructor in the Rhetoric and General Education in Literature Departments at The University of Iowa, served as president and in various other leadership roles in UE Local 893-COGS (the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students), worked as a Project Staff Organizer for the UE, and was active in The University of Iowa Students Against Sweatshops. She is currently a member and officer of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 716.
Academic background:
Ph. D., Enlish, The University of Iowa, 2008
MA, English, The University of Iowa, 2000
BA,English and Neuroscience, Oberlin College, 1995
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