RU Organizing: An Introduction to the Building Blocks of Organizing for Change

Participating in politics is a marathon not a sprint, requiring a multi-faceted approach to addressing community issues. Join the Center for Youth Political Participation for RU Organizing: An Introduction to the Building Blocks of Organizing for Change on Tuesday, April 7th from 6:00PM to 8:30PM at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. 

Hosted by Dr. Janice Fine, Professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations and Director of Workplace Justice Lab@RU, attendees will develop skills of collective action and community organizing to systematically address issues at the campus, local, state, and federal level. 

Dinner will be served; open to current Rutgers University undergraduate and graduate students only. Advanced registration required. 

About Dr. Janice Fine

Janice Fine holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Political Science and is a Professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and Director of the workplace justice lab@RU within the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University where she writes and teaches about economic justice movements and organizations including unions, worker centers, community organizing groups and other forms of collective action in the U.S and cross-nationally; historical and contemporary debates within labor movements regarding immigration; labor standards enforcement; privatization and state capacity for contract oversight. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers in 2005, she worked as a labor, community and political organizer and trainer for over twenty years and continues to collaborate with unions, worker centers, immigrant rights organizations and community organizing groups.

Fine leads the Labor Standards Enforcement and Base-building projects. She is also a member of the graduate faculty in Political Science and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers.