Program director: Miriam Cohen (Associate Director, New England Jewish Labor Committee)

Miriam joined the Jewish Labor Committee in 2026. She began working in the labor movement by organizing with UNITE HERE locals in New Haven. Since coming to Cambridge in 2021, she has organized as a JOIN for Justice fellow with Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light and as a volunteer with IfNotNow and local immigrant defense work. Outside of organizing, she has worked at several local synagogues as a youth educator, as well as at Kolbo Judaica Gallery in Brookline.

Miriam can be reached at miriamc@jewishlabor.org.

staff

advisory committee

We are grateful to our team of organizers and community leaders who are helping to shape this project:

Dick Bauer, New England Jewish Labor Committee board liaison

Michael Jacoby Brown, founder of JOIN for Justice

Emilia Diamant, Chief Program Officer at Avodah

Sophia Gluskin-Braun, organizer at UNITE HERE Local 26

Tolle Graham, former coordinator at Mass COSH

Harris Gruman, State Council executive director at SEIU MA

Rebecca Gutman, vice president at 1199 SEIU

Meir Lakein, co-executive director at JOIN for Justice

Paul Weiskel, organizer at Teamsters Joint Council 10

Pamela Whitefield, UMass Lowell Labor Extension