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Peter Kardas
Juan José Bocanegra
Sarah Laslett
Sarah Ryan
Nina Triffleman
Brendan Maslauskas
Samira Shirdel
Peter Kardas
Labor Education & Research Center Director
Phone: 360-867-6526
Fax: 360-867-6798
Office: Sem II E-2135
Email: kardasp@evergreen.edu
Peter has been working most recently as a labor relations consultant to a Washington Federation of Teachers local union and as a consultant to unions on employee ownership and workplace participation. During much of the 1990s he was a staff member with the state Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development's Employee Ownership and Community Diversification/ Manufacturing Initiatives Programs, where, among other things, he helped to organize a Washington Federation of State Employees bargaining unit in the agency and served as chief shop steward. Prior to moving to Washington state in 1991, Peter staffed two projects with the American Friends Service Committee in upstate New York. One project involved developing new cooperative and employee owned enterprises, and the other focused on peace conversion and economic justice. From 1979 to 1984 he was an assistant professor of politics at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Peter received a Ph.D. in political science from Penn State and a B.A. in political and social philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley.
 Juan José Bocanegra
Labor Educator/Field Organizer, Unions and Immigrant Workers
Phone: 360-867-5524
Office: Sem II E-2128
Email: bocanegj@evergreen.edu
Juan José (or Boca, as many people know him) has been employed most recently as an organizer with Washington State Jobs with Justice, and during his 35 years in the Northwest has also been involved in numerous social justice efforts and community service activities. He was (among other things) one of the founders of El Centro de la Raza in Seattle, worked with the American Friends Service Committee to help organize the first Immigrant Rights Defense Committees in Washington State in 1986, recently provided support to the Hotel Workers Rising Organizing efforts of UNITE HERE Local 8, is a member of the King County Charter Review Commission, is the state secretary of the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana (PRD), and has been active with the Survival of American Indian Association and LELO (now known as the Legacy of Equality, Leadership, and Organizing). For twenty years (from 1981 to 2001) he was the executive director of the Downtown Human Services Council in Seattle.
 Sarah Laslett
Labor Educator / Field Organizer, Union and Community Women
Phone: 360-867- 6527
Office: Sem II E-2132
Email: lasletts@evergreen.edu
Before coming to the Labor Center, Sarah was the director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington for four years. She’s also been an adjunct faculty member in the UW Departments of History and Political Science (teaching seminars on labor research and classes on women and work). In the mid-1990s, she was a grad student in the Program in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, where she was also an instructor and an organizer with the Graduate Student Organizing Congress, an affiliate of the NEA/AFT. From 1999 to 2001 she was a field representative with the University Professional and Technical Employees Union in San Francisco (Local 9119 of the Communication Workers of America), and in 2002 and 2003 was a researcher and database manager with Service Employees International Union Local 925 in Seattle.
Sarah Ryan
Labor Studies Part-time Faculty
Phone: 360-867-6720
Office: Sem II B3112
Email: ryans@evergreen.edu
Sarah is a member of the Evening and Weekend faculty at Evergreen. She is teaching "Justice at Work," a labor and civil rights history and law program, winter and spring quarters this year. Sarah is a long time activist and former officer in the American Postal Workers Union and was an active organizer for the United Faculty of Evergreen. She has a Masters degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Rutgers University.
Nina Triffleman
Labor Center Assistant Director
Phone: 360-867-6055
Office: Sem II E2133
Email: trifflen@evergreen.edu
Nina has been at the Labor Center since March of 2005. She coordinated the 2006 and 2007 Summer School for Union Women and Community Activists; compiled the WA State Workers’ Rights Manual; worked on other conferences/gatherings; and kept the Labor Center in sane running order. In her most recent previous employment, she worked as an HIV/AIDS project manager/advocate, and HIV/AIDS health educator, for middle and high school students. Her varied employment history is tied together by strong interests in environmental, health, economic, and social justice issues. She has an M.S. degree in Marine Science from the University of South Florida. Nina is on the Gleaners Coalition Board, working to provide healthy food to low-income community members in Thurston County. She believes strongly in empowering working folks to build bridges between communities, so they can work together for a more just and equal world. At the same time, she thinks it's important to generate as much beauty and creativity in our daily lives as possible.
 Brendan Maslauskas
Student Intern
Phone: 360-867-6525
Office: Sem II E2126
Email: dunb@evergreen.edu
Brendan is a senior student who transferred to Evergreen from the State University System in New York. He is a member of Students for a Democratic Society and a delegate and union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. His studies in school focus on labor history, political theory, social movements, and art. At the Labor Center he is working on a US and Washington State labor history project.
Samira Shirdel
Student Intern
Phone: 360-867-6525
Office: Sem II E2126
Email: shirdels@evergreen.edu
Samira is a senior student. Prior to transferring to Evergreen, she worked in Los Angeles as an advocate for API immigrant women survivors of domestic violence. Back in school she has continued learning about immigrant rights issues, as well as focusing on colonialism, imperialism and Middle Eastern studies. As a student employee of the Labor Center, she is currently assisting staff on the Workers’ Rights Manual and on a mapping project.
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