Spotlight: Virginia Rodino

LNS is proud to introduce our new Communications Director, Virginia Rodino. Virginia’s professional career has focused on communications strategy for labor, non-profit, and activist organizations. She has decades of experience tying together coalition building, advocacy, research, policy, and communications strategy to build grassroots campaings. She has worked at the Service Employees International Union as a senior communications strategist, served as executive director for the Coalition of Labor Union Women, AFL-CIO, and is the president of the Maryland chapter of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. Her PhD dissertation explored the communications strategies of the global justice movement. Virginia says, “During my past nearly 30 years of professional social justice strategy work, I’ve prioritized lifting up the voices of the most marginalized communities to further social and economic justice and am honored to now be working at the intersection of labor and climate justice.”