Jeff Johnson is the retiring chair of the LNS board. He has been a board member since 2018 and will continue in that role. For many years he was president of the Washington State Labor Council AFL-CIO. He joined the labor movement in 1979 as a member of Local 2190, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, New York City. He taught Labor Economics and Labor Studies at Empire State College, the Center for Labor Studies and in many union and community sponsored education programs in the New York area before moving to the West Coast. His work has gained respect not only across the labor movement but also with a diverse group of organizations in Washington State. He is a well-known and deeply respected elected labor leader who is playing an important role in the Pacific Northwest, on climate as well as on a range of other labor issues. He joined us for the first Labor Convergence on Climate, and we have continued to work more and more closely with him since. Recently he has been able to move resolutions on both climate and Just Transition through the WA state AFL-CIO convention.