Worker Institute Public Engagement & Communications

The Worker Institute (WI) brings together researchers, educators and students with practitioners in labor, business and policymaking to address issues related to confronting systemic inequality and building a fair economy, robust democracy and just society. The WI Blog plays an important role in the WI’s public engagement by presenting information, analysis, and updates about WI activities – through articles about WI research, published reports, conferences and convenings, and labor education and training. Student researchers will learn about the WI activities in all these areas and will write WI blog articles about them. This will entail a wide range of research and writing by the student researchers, including learning about research reports and activities as they are being developed and implemented, writing WI blog articles that present WI research and activities in ways that highlight key issues, findings, and innovations to the public, and engaging in interviews with WI faculty and stakeholders (e.g. labor leaders) for blog articles about their work. – with WI Executive Director Patricia Campos-Medina and ILR Professor and WI Academic Director Risa Lieberwitz