Adjunct Faculty
 Joseph Abel, PhD
Joseph Abel received his PhD in history from Rice University and is currently an instructor of history at the Community College of Baltimore County. Raised in a union family, Joseph first became involved in the labor movement as graduate student when he joined the Texas State Employees Union. Since then, he has marched with striking janitors, organized teach-ins, and helped introduce a new generation of young people to the labor movement as a visiting professor of labor studies at Florida International University's Center for Labor Research & Studies. His current research focuses on the history of organized labor in Texas-specifically the efforts of unionized black workers to secure equal rights in the military aircraft industry of Fort Worth-and has been featured in a number of prominent historical journals and edited collections.
Email: jaabel30@gmail.com
Degree courses: Labor and Work in the U.S.
 Carol Abraham, MA
Ms. Carol Abraham has been in the field of Higher Education for approximately 10 years. She began her career as Career Counselor and worked for Monroe College and St. John's University in New York City. Upon completing her Master's degree at Mercy College she transitioned into Academic Counseling. She has worked at University of Maryland University College and currently works at Towson University. She is currently taking graduate courses at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Email: cra5555@aim.com
Degree courses: Digital Learning for the 21st Century
 David Alexander, MS
David is an Adjunct Professor at the National Labor College. For the past fifteen years, he has been primarily responsible for working with the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trade Department in the design and coordination of courses in their curriculum. David is the lead faculty person on the Contract Negotiations in the Construction Industry class. Prior to 2000, David spent twenty years as a full-time member of the staff at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies. He is a graduate of Rutgers University, with a Bachelor of Arts in History, and a Master of Science in Public Policy. He resides in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Catherine and his two children.
Email: davida2647@comcast.net
Union Skills courses: Contract Negotiations in the Construction Industry
 Laura Ariovich, PhD
Dr. Laura Ariovich is a sociologist by training with vast experience combining quantitative and qualitative methods. She received her PhD from Northwestern University, after completing her dissertation on organizing strategies and member participation in a large union local of service workers. Her research was published in the book Organizing the Organized. Trade Union Renewal, Organizational Change and Worker Activism in Metropolitan America (Trade Unions Past, Present, and Future Vol. 10, Peter Lang AG, 2010). Dr. Ariovich is also an expert in assessment; she specializes in the assessment of co-curricular activities and in surveys and focus groups aimed to capture college students' views and experiences.
Email: laura.ariovich@gmail.com
Degree courses: Research Methods
 Roger Blacklow, MA
Roger graduated from Syracuse University with a BA in Political Science and earned his master's degree in Public Administration (with honors) from National Labor College in 2002 at age 57. He worked on Capitol Hill for seven years and was involved with AFL-CIO campaigns for several decades, both organizing and political. His past positions include Legislative and Political Director for National Postal Mail Handlers Union; Legislative Assistant and grassroots political director for Laborers International Union; Legislative Assistant and grassroots director for National Association of Letter Carriers. He has taught at NLC since 2007.
Email: rblacklow@gmail.com
Degree courses: Labor and the American Political System; Labor and Politics
 Carlos Braziel, MA, EdD
Carlos is a retired US Air Force officer, currently serving as the Middle East Seminar Director for the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
His experience in education and training started when he was selected to serve as an electrical systems instructor at the US Air Force Civil Engineering School in Wichita Falls, Texas. He has also taught and trained military and civilian members at Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in crisis management and disaster preparedness/recovery fundamentals and procedures. Carlos received his MA in Advanced Leadership Studies and his Ed. D. in Organizational Leadership from Indiana-Wesleyan University.
Email: cbraziel@mac.com
Degree courses: Strategic Financial Planning and Management
 John Borsos, PhD
John has been a union organizer for twenty years, and is a vice-president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers. He has published articles in a number of academic journals and popular publications. He earned a PhD in American labor history from Indiana University.
Email: jeborsos@sbcglobal.net
Degree courses: Labor and Work in the United States; Labor and Work in the Global Economy
 Julie Brockman, PhD
Julie L. Brockman is an Assistant Professor in Michigan State University's School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Julie's primary research interests focus on negotiation and conflict resolution in the workplace, the process of joint union/management collaboration and professional development of adult educators. Julie received her BA in Psychology from The Ohio State University, an MA in Organizational Communication from The Ohio State University, an MA in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University and a PhD in Adult Education from Michigan State University.
Email: brockma4@gmail.com
Degree courses: Industrial Relations in the Construction Industry
 Kirk Brungard, MA
Kirk is a 2nd generation electrician and was initiated into Los Angeles' Local 11 in 1983. After serving on numerous committees, he was appointed as a local union organizer of the 7,500-member local and elected as recording secretary in 1999. He eventually headed up the Los Angeles LMCC Compliance Office and worked hand-in-hand with the LMCC Business Development Office. In 2005, Kirk was appointed as an International Representative in the Membership Development Department where he assisted in the development of organizing education, preparing for yearly conferences and development of the online library. In October 2009, Kirk was appointed the Executive Assistant to the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Kirk attended the University of California at Los Angeles and California State Northridge, later receiving his BA in labor studies from the National Labor College. In 2004, he graduated from the University of Baltimore with a Master's Degree in public administration.
Email: KBrungard@aflcio.org
Union Skills courses: Various Building and Construction Trades courses
 Joe Burgett, MA, PhD
Joe is a General Contractor and has a wide range of commercial construction experience working on project types including hospitals, hotels, retirement campuses, libraries, judicial complexes, and multi-family residential. During his time in the industry, Joe worked as a Field Superintendent, Project Manager and Estimator. While still keeping close ties with the industry, currently he is teaching and recently completed his PhD at the University of Florida specializing in energy modeling and conservation techniques. He also earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Building Construction at the University of Florida.
Email: Burgett@ufl.edu
Degree courses: Construction Cost Accounting and Finance
 Brenda Cantrell
Brenda initially was on staff at the National Labor College when it first opened as the AFL-CIO Labor Studies Center in 1969. From 1990 until 2007 when she retired, Brenda coordinated recruitment, training and finances, and later directed the Rail Workers Hazardous Materials Training Program, a federally funded program providing hazmat and instructor training to rail workers.With more than 20 years of experience in the health and safety arena, she teaches fully online health and safety courses for NLC's Labor Studies program and serves as a training consultant to the Rail Program since her retirement in 2007. Brenda holds a degree in Labor Studies from the National Labor College.
Email: bcantrell@nlc.edu
Degree courses: Bio-Terrorism Agents and Emergency Response; Foundations in Safety and Health; Hazardous Materials Transportation
 Kathleen "Kitty" Conlan, MA
Kathleen is the former Education Director of the Laborers' International Union of North America. She has a Master's Degree in Labor Studies and is a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist. She has been an adjunct faculty member at NLC since 2000 and has worked in the labor movement for more than 30 years.
Email: kathleenconlan@verizon.net
Degree courses: Union Administration; Union Structure and Governance
Union Skills courses: New Union Staff
 Susan Darnley, MA
Susan Darnley has been an educator for over ten years with the Carroll County Public School system. Prior to entering the education world, she worked for a major bank as a consultant and trainer. She holds a Master's Degree in Education as well as in Business Administration and is nationally certified as an educator.
Email: shdarnley@gmail.com
Degree courses: Effective Writing (lower division credits)
 Yvette De La Cruz, MA
Yvette is a trainer, facilitator and project management consultant who works with trade unions and progressive non-profit organizations domestically and internationally. She is a long-time labor activist and professional labor educator, schooled in the principles of participatory learning, who applies the pedagogy of “training for transformation” to the field of labor education. Yvette has been a guest instructor and adjunct professor at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies/National Labor College since 2000. She obtained her BA in Labor Studies from the National Labor College and her MA in Globalization and Labor Policy from the Berlin School of Economics.
Email: UNIONIZE@aol.com
Union Skills courses: Teaching Techniques I; Teaching Techniques II
 Paul Delaine
Paul joined the National Labor College in 2010, teaching Secretary-Treasurers Total Solution and Requirements. Paul is a retired U.S. Postal Service employee and has over 20 years' experience in labor union finances. Paul is former President of the Maryland and DC State American Postal Workers Union. He also served as the organization's Secretary-Treasurer and 12 years as Treasurer of the Montgomery County (MD) Postal Workers Union. Paul is currently a consultant, Union Finances and QuickBooks instructor for the American Postal Workers Union, teaching nationwide at seminars. Paul is a certified bookkeeper and tax professional. He is still involved in the labor movement, volunteering as Trustee for his Local and Legislative/Political Director for his state organization.
Email: pdelaine@aol.com
Phone: (301) 806-1429
Union Skills courses: Secretary-Treasurers Total Solution; Secretary-Treasurers and Officers Fiduciary Responsibility Training
 Jay Driskell, PhD
Jay Driskell is an Assistant Professor at Hood College in Frederick, MD, where he teaches US history with a special emphasis on African American, women's and labor history. His involvement with the labor movement began at Yale University where he spent five years organizing three strikes with the union for graduate teachers and researchers at Yale. Since then, he has worked with UNITE HERE as a volunteer organizer, researcher and consultant on immigration, politics and academic outreach. He earned his BA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2000 and his PhD from Yale in 2008.
Email: jdriskell@nlc.edu
Degree courses: Living Labor History
 Tom Downey, , MBA, PhD
Tom is best described as a learning technologist who has been dedicated to the design, development and delivery of technology-based learning products. His passion is to enable people to increase their personal and professional potential through well-designed training systems and by doing this cost-efficiently. Tom has a Masters in Instructional Design and Technology and a multi-disciplinary PhD in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Human Factors and Psychology from the University of Washington. Tom has also achieved an MBA online in Accounting, Information Services and Security from the New York Institute of Technology.
Email: tdowney.pai@gmail.com
Degree courses: Marketing and New Media
 Cam Duncan, PhD
Cam teaches political economy, immigration policy and strategic campaigns at NLC and has worked in the labor movement for more than 30 years. He is the former Regional Director for the Americas of Public Services International, the global federation of public service unions, doing strategic campaign work with public sector unions. He also worked for the AFSCME Research Department, the AFL-CIO Workers Institute for Safety and Health, and the AFL-CIO International Department. Besides teaching for labor organizations, Cam taught economics at the American University and served as Chief Economist for the US House Committee on Small Business. Cam received a PhD in labor economics from American University. He is an AFT member.
Email: duncancam@comcast.net
Degree courses: Labor and Work in the Global Economy
 Fred Frey, MBA
Fred is the administrator of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency's (MEMA) Emergency Management Mentorship Experience. He has also served as controller and trusted agent for MEMA during radiological exercises for fixed nuclear facilities. Fred has given presentations to national audiences and facilitated strategic planning initiatives concerning the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) for the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA). He received his Bachelor of Arts in mass communications from The American University in Washington, D.C. and an MBA from the University of Baltimore.
Email: ffrey@clear.net
Degree courses: Emergency Planning
Paul Gibson
Paul was raised in a union family in Wilmington, Delaware. After attending college at the University of Delaware, he pursued a graduate degree in US history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently a doctoral candidate there, writing his dissertation on coalition building between organized labor and the environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s. For the past five years, he has worked as an adjunct professor of history at several institutions, including National Labor College, the University of Maryland, and Howard Community College.
Email: slcpaul@umd.edu
Degree courses: Research Methods; Living Labor History
Greg Giebel
Greg was NLC's first Provost and in retirement continues to teach courses at the college. Additionaly, he also currently teaches for Penn State's Labor and Employment Relations program and in the Sociology Department atVirginia Commonwealth University. He is the former Director of the Laborer's Reseach and Education Department and a long time member of the graduate faculty of the University of the District of Columbia's Labor Studies Department.
Email: greggiebel@gmail.com
Union Skills courses: New Union Staff
Gerard Hall, MA, PhD
Dr. Hall joined NLC in September 2011. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southern University and A&M College in 1986. Dr. Hall holds a Master of Arts Degree in Computer Resources and Information Management from Webster University, a Masters of Arts Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the US Naval Command and Staff College, and a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University. He is in his 27th year of active duty in the U.S. Navy.
Email: H53hall@aol.com
Degree courses: Disaster Response, Operations and Management
 Lantz Holtzhower, MA, PhD
Lantz is currently a PhD student and instructor in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction. His interests include water conservation, rainwater harvesting, stormwater recycling, and overall sustainable water use within buildings. The current focus of his research is the implementation effects of low impact developments such as green roofs and constructed wetlands into the built environment. He holds a Master's degree in Building Construction and a Bachelor's degree in Architecture, both from the University of Florida. Lantz's nine years of professional construction experience includes work as project manager for construction managers, an electrical contractor and a fire protection contractor. He is a licensed Certified Building Contractor in the State of Florida and a member of the USGBC.
Email: holtzhower@gmail.com
Degree courses: : Fundamentals of the Construction Industry I & II; Project Building Systems; Project
Administration; Construction Cost Accounting, Estimating and Finance (Construction Research Methods); Construction Project Planning and Scheduling
 Gary Huh, PhD
Gary received his PhD from the School of Natural Science & Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas in 1991. After graduation, he worked at the National Institutes of Health as a staff scientist in the area of bio-medical research and authored numerous publications in scientific journals. He is a member of the American Federation of Teachers. Dr. Huh's teaching philosophy is an individualized, cooperative step-by-step approach.
Email: garyhuh516@gmail.com
Degree courses: College Algebra; Business Mathematics; Science, Technology and Our World
 Lainie Kitt, MA
Lainie has been an adjunct instructor for National Labor College since 2004, first teaching Educational Planning and now Prior Learning Assessment. She graduated from NLC in 2003 with a BA in Labor Studies and earned an MA in Labor Studies from CUNY. As a graduate, Lainie has a unique understanding of students' needs and enjoys helping them fulfill their educational dreams.
Email: lainiek46@aol.com
Degree courses: Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) Workshop
 Fred Kotler, JD
A labor educator for twenty-five years, Fred coordinates and instructs within construction industry-related and teaching techniques courses. He is currently Research Associate, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University and has served as Director, Cornell / New York State AFL-CIO Union Leadership Institute and Associate Director, Cornell Construction Industry Program. Fred's experience includes service as local union business agent, organizer, COPE coordinator, labor council delegate, and leader within a citywide labor-community coalition. A Chicago native, Fred studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley and received a law degree from the University of San Francisco.
Email: fbk2@cornell.edu
Union Skills courses: COMET Train the Trainer; Contract Negotiations in the Private Sector; Labor Law in the Construction Industry; Organizing in the Construction Industry I-IV
 Iram Ramírez Linares, MA, PhD
Iram has been a passionate labor and political activist since he was a teenager. For the past six years, he has taught labor-management relations in the undergraduate program of the Institute of Labor Relationships at the University of Puerto Rico. For the past year, he has taught as an adjunct visiting lecturer in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Labor Relations, a Master's degree in History, and a PhD in History from the University of Puerto Rico. He has worked full time with the Office and Professional Employees International Union for 11 years, where he has participated in dozens of arbitrations and administrative hearings at the local and federal level, and led negotiations to resolve labor disputes.
Email: opeiu_pr@hotmail.com
Degree courses: Labor and Work in the United States
 Arthur T. Matthews, JD
Arthur is the Chief Operating Officer and principal partner of Matthews & Matthews Consulting. He started his teaching career in the mid-1980s at Medger Evers College/CUNY and then spent years teaching IBEW Local 3 apprentices at Empire State College/Van Arsdale School of Labor Studies. He serves or has served as a mediator and or arbitrator for panels such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the American Arbitration Association. Since 2007, he has served on the faculty at National Labor College.
Email: atm5@cornell.edu
Degree courses: Management and Labor in the 21st Century
 Mike Mauer
Mike Mauer, a labor lawyer by training, is the author of The Union Member's Complete Guide, and co-editor of Academic Collective Bargaining. He has worked for the NLRB and for a variety of public and private sector union and is currently Director of Collective Bargaining for the American Association of University Professors. He teaches at NLC and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Email: mmauer99@hotmail.com
Degree courses: Labor Law; Labor and Work in the United States
Union Skills courses: Negotiating and Writing Contract Language; Labor and Emlpoyment Law; Arbitration
 Patrick D. “Dave” McDowell, MS
Patrick is a 20+ year law enforcement professional who has worked as a patrol officer, investigator, hostage negotiator and both mid-level and senior-level member of management. He has a Master's Degree in Management Science from the Johns Hopkins University Police Executive Leadership Program and has taught criminal justice-related classes at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He is also a tenured certified law enforcement instructor with the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission and Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
Email: mcdowepd@co.cal.md.us
 Gene Morrill
Mr. Morrill was one of the original faculty members when the institution opened as The Labor Studies Center, later The George Meany Center. He remained for 27 years offering courses in communications; including public speaking and media training; he also provided specific training in organizing, collective bargaining and disciplinary hearings. He traveled for the AFL-CIO to Canada, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Egypt, Kosovo, Tunisia and South Africa to assist trade unions in these countries during elections.
Email: Genemorrill@aol.com
 Ruth A. Needleman, MA, PhD
Ruth is a Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. She has authored numerous publications and won several awards, including the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) Award for Excellence in Teaching in Labor Education and a Fulbright Fellowship for Senior Scholars. She is a member of United Association for Labor Education, Organization of American Historians, and Labor and Working-Class History Association. Ruth earned her PhD and MA from Harvard University and her BA from Brandeis University.
Email: rneedle@iun.edu
Degree courses: The Future of Labor and Work
 Bob Pleasure, MS, JD
Bob is Special Assistant to the President of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, and is the Building Trades Director of Education and Training. He holds a Master of Science Degree from the London School of Economics and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan School of Law. Bob was formerly Executive Director of the George Meany Center, National Labor College, and Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO for Education and Training. He directed CPWR, the research arm of the Building Trades, and served as Director of the AFL-CIO's Center for Working Capital. Most recently, Bob was a member of the Department of Energy review team in the Obama-Biden transition.
Email: RPleasure@bctd.org
Union Skills courses: Contract Negotiations in the Private Sector; Labor Law in the Construction Industry; Organizing in the Construction Industry I-IV
 Stephanie Pollack, MA
Stephanie has been teaching at NLC since 2007. Stephanie is an inter-culturally and artistically focused experiential educator, trainer, facilitator, writer, and consultant with 20 years of experience working in a variety of cultures and environments on 6 continents. With her business Creative Facilitations she develops and leads innovative organizational and individual transformation processes, retreats, trainings, educational programs, and community building events around the globe. Stephanie is passionate about combining the arts and interactive on-your-feet methods to inspire “A-Ha” moments for cultural proficiency, conflict prevention, teambuilding, leadership development, and inspired teaching.
Email: Stephanie@CreativeFacilitations.com
Union Skills courses: Methods that Motivate
 Sheila Prados, MS
Ms. Prados is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program. She holds a bachelor's degree in Business, Psychology, and Sociology from the University of Baltimore and a master's degree in Sociology from New Mexico State University. Ms. Prados has served as a teaching assistant for the past six years for the following courses -Introduction to Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, and Research Methods. Her research interests are race/ethnicity, identity development and maintenance, and mental health related issues of vulnerable populations.
Email: sprados1@umbc.edu
Degree courses: Research Methods
 Doaa Rashed, MA
Doaa has been teaching English for 15 years both in Egypt and the United States. Doaa has experience in cross cultural communication training as well as teacher professional development. After receiving her Masters in Instructional Systems Development from the UMBC (Maryland), Doaa started her PhD in Language, Literacy & Culture with a focus on assessment of online teaching and learning. Recently, Doaa has been involved in assessment of learning outcomes projects at National Labor College.
Email: drashed@nlc.edu
Degree courses: Research Methods
 Ruth Ruttenberg, MA, PhD
Dr. Ruttenberg is an economist, specializing in labor economics and occupational safety and health. She is widely published and is an active consultant with a range of unions and government agencies. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin and a Master's degree and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Email: rruttenberg@nlc.edu
Degree courses: Labor and Work in the United States
 Michael Schiavone, PhD
Michael has published numerous articles on the labor movement and is the author of Unions in Crisis? The Future of Organized Labor in America (Praeger Publishers, 2008). He has a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from Flinders University and a PhD from the Australian National University. His doctoral dissertation was on social movement unionism in North America.
Email: schiavone5150@yahoo.com
Degree courses: Labor and Work in the Global Economy
 Katherine Sciacchitano, JD
Katherine teaches arbitration and political economy at NLC. Prior to joining the NLC faculty she worked as an organizer, a union representative and a labor lawyer; she also taught at the School for Workers, University of Wisconsin. She has published articles on organizing, the global economy, the financial crisis, welfare reform, and health care reform. Download her most recent publication in Dollars and Sense. She graduated from the Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Email: ksciacchitano@nlc.edu
Degree courses: Jobs and Growth, Debt and Deficits; Labor and the Economy; Labor and Trade in the Global Economy; Labor and Work in the Global Economy
Union Skills courses: Arbitration Preparation and Presentation Level I and II; Arbitration Brief Writing; Grievance Mediation; Strategic Grievance Handling
Patrick B. Shaw, JD
Patrick has had a long career of diverse experience on behalf of working families. Most recently, Pat was on the staff of the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) Department of Organizing and Services for almost 20 years. Prior to that, he was a Business Agent for Teamsters Local 364. From 1977-1988, he was in private law practice, including several years at Beins, Axelrod, representing labor unions locally and nationally. Pat received his BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1967 and his law degree from Indiana University- Bloomington in 1975.
Email: pshaw@nlc.edu
Union Skills courses: Negotiating and Writing Contract Language
 Clayton Sinyai, PhD
Clayton worked as a machine operator at WH Salisbury, a railroad clerk at the Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad, and a letter carrier for the US Postal Service before earning a PhD in Political Science at Rutgers University. Clayton has done political, research, organizing, and communication work on the staff of the Laborers' International Union of North America and the Amalgamated Transit Union and currently works in the Communications Department of CPWR - The Center for Construction Training and Research. He is the author of Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement (Cornell, 2006).
Email: clayton@sinyai.org
Degree courses: Research Methods
 Melanye Smith, MS, PhD
Melanye has enjoyed a twenty-five year career as a law enforcement officer, manager and administrator in the nation's Capital. During that time, she's held numerous leadership positions in law enforcement as well as teaching and training in some form for over twenty years. Examples of courses include leadership, management, ethics, criminal procedures and NCIS-type computer forensics. Dr. Smith began her undergraduate studies at Howard University and received her undergraduate degree in Organizational Psychology from Washington Adventist University, her masters in Organizational Development from the University of Phoenix, and her Doctorate in Organization and Management from Capella University.
Email: msmith@nlc.edu
Degree courses: Fundamentals of Emergency Readiness and Response Management
 Fred Snow, PhD
Fred served in academia as a three-time University President, Vice President, Dean, Director, and Tenured Faculty. He is deeply committed to adult students and has extensive teaching experience, both face-to-face and online. He developed some of the most successful online academic programs in online learning today and understands the importance of instructor interaction, timeliness, and feedback with students. He won various teaching awards when he was a full-time professor.
Email: fred.snow@symphonyeducation.com
Degree courses: Financial and Accounting Controls
Yvonne Syphax, MA
Yvonne Syphax is an instructional designer and trainer consultant for unions. She has special expertise in leadership development and communications. In 2011 she became a guest instructor for the National Labor College's Investor Education Program. Her teaching methodology is grounded in popular education principles. Yvonne has over 30 years of experience as a labor activist and educator. She has worked for both public and private sector unions, including the AFT, UFCW and AFSCME. She received a BS in Secondary Education from Boston University, and has a MA in Education from American University.
Email: mysyphax@comcast.net
Union Skills courses: Organizing I and Teaching Techniques
 Joe Twarog, MA
Joe works full-time for the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United as a labor educator. His previous work included many years with SEIU as a union representative as well as with the AFT affiliate in Massachusetts. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst Labor Center for many years and since 2003 at the NLC. He has a BA in history from the College of the Holy Cross and an MA in East Asian studies from the University of Michigan.
Email: jtwarog@mnarn.org
Union Skills courses: Contract Negotiations in the Private Sector; Negotiating Contracts with State and Local Governments
 Patricia Westwater, MS
Patricia Westwater is a communications and organization development consultant for unions. She has been a guest and adjunct instructor at the National Labor College and the George Meany Center since 1993. Trish has nearly twenty years of experience in strategic communications and video production for organizing and corporate campaigns, as well as internal membership mobilization and change initiatives. Previous to her consulting work, Trish was Communications Director for UNITE, as well as a public affairs television producer and an international human rights representative in Guatemala and Nicaragua. She received a BA in International Conflict from the College of William and Mary, and a Master's of Science in Organization Development from American University/NTL.
Email: pwestwater@mac.com
Union Skills courses: Organizing in the Construction Industry IV: Communications and Media
 Gail Whitaker, MS, PhD
Dr. Gail Whitaker serves as Dean for the School of Business at Virginia International University (VIU). She currently teaches management and labor relations courses at NLC, VIU and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). She has a Doctorate in Management from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), an MS in Information Systems from UMUC, an MS in Labor Studies from UDC and a BS in Business Administration from American University. After receiving her MS in Labor Studies from the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), Dr. Whitaker worked for the Service Employees International Union as well as volunteered for a number of union campaigns including “Justice for Janitors”.
Email: gwhitaker12@comcast.net
Degree courses: Business Ethics and Sustainability
 Lane Windham
Lane has been involved in the union movement for more than 20 years. She is earning a PhD from the University of Maryland with a focus on US labor and working class history. Lane worked at the AFL-CIO for 12 years in media outreach during the Sweeney administration, finally serving as the department director. Lane started out as a union organizer and communications director with the clothing and textile workers' union in the South. Her research interests are the history of union organizing, the 1970s, gender and labor and the rise of the conservatism.
Email: lanewindham@gmail.com
Degree courses: Living Labor History
 Donna Winthrop, MA
Donna Winthrop retired in 2013 after serving as a Faculty Specialist in the School of Human Resources & Labor Relations at Michigan State University with primary responsibilities in workforce development, labor education, and cooperative labor management relations and organizational change. Her areas of teaching are organizational behavior and collective bargaining. She received her undergraduate degree in retailing and design from the University of Kentucky and holds a Master of Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University.
Email: dwinthrop@nlc.edu
Degree courses: Industrial Relations in the Construction Industry
 Patricia Yeghissian, MA
Patricia has more than 30 years staff experience in the labor movement, at both local and international union and federation level. She has held varied positions from field organizer to HR Director. She has consulted with a number of diverse unions, as well as nonprofit organizations on leadership development, organizational development, strategy, and campaign development. She has a BA and MA from University of Michigan in Labor History and Labor and Industrial Relations.
Email: pyeghissian@gmail.com
Union Skills courses: New Union Staff; Organizing I; Leadership Theory
 Tom Zaniello
Tom has taught film studies courses on labor issues and globalization at NLC for a number of years. A Capitol Hill resident, he has also been active in programs for the annual DC Labor Film Fest, sponsored by the Metropolitan Washington Council of the AFL-CIO, the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, and the American Film Institute. He is the author of two books in part based on courses at NLC—“The Cinema of Globalization” and “Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor.”
Email: TZANIELLO@nku.edu
Degree courses: Film and Globalization
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