{"id":91,"date":"2026-03-24T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:41:44","slug":"our-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=91","title":{"rendered":"Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. Michael Merrill, Board Chairman<\/strong><br>Professor, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Les Leopold, President<\/strong><br>Executive Director, Labor Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sally Silvers, Treasurer<\/strong><br>Labor Institute Finance Manager, 1981-2018<br>Choreographer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jim Young, Secretary<\/strong><br>Principal, Labor Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Susan Wefald, Board Member<\/strong><br>Economic Justice Program Director<br>Center for Community Change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mark Dudzic, Board Member<\/strong><br>National Coordinator<br>Labor Campaign for Single Payer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. Joan Greenbaum, Board Member<\/strong><br>Professor Emeritus, Graduate Center CUNY<br>Critical Social and Environmental Psychology Department<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Carolyn Mugar,\u00a0Board Member<\/strong><br>Executive Director Farm Aid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. Adolph Reed Jr., Board Member<\/strong><br>Professor of Political Science,<br>University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Rosen, Esq., Board Member<\/strong><br>General Counsel,<br>Transportation Workers Union of America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Merrill, Board ChairmanProfessor, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Les Leopold, PresidentExecutive Director, Labor Institute Sally Silvers, TreasurerLabor Institute Finance Manager, 1981-2018Choreographer Jim Young, SecretaryPrincipal, Labor Institute Susan Wefald, Board MemberEconomic Justice Program DirectorCenter for Community Change Mark Dudzic, Board MemberNational CoordinatorLabor Campaign for Single Payer Dr. Joan Greenbaum, Board MemberProfessor Emeritus, &#8230; <a title=\"Board\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=91\" aria-label=\"Read more about Board\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}