Leadership

Lauren joined the Jewish Labor Committee in 2026, continuing a career in Jewish community advocacy and labor organizing. Before becoming Executive Director, Lauren spent five years at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, where she developed national campaigns for synagogues and Jewish institutions to advocate for policies to protect SNAP, WIC, School Meals and other safety net programs. Before that, she was an organizer with the Public Interest Research Group, where she implemented organizer training programs for students at the University of Texas and built power for a successful initiative to secure funding for a comprehensive transit system in Austin. 

Lauren has also been deeply involved in union organizing, including participating in two staff unionization efforts. In her first union campaign, she joined an organizing effort that was well underway at a large company. She was inspired by the decades-long effort of workers who continued fighting for better working conditions through starts and stops, building a legacy that shaped the workplace for those that came after them. Later, Lauren helped lead a successful campaign to organize her colleagues, joining Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 9003. She went on to help lead the multi-year bargaining process and steward the union through its first year under contract. 

Lauren can be reached at lauren@jewishlabor.org

Miriam joined the Jewish Labor Committee in 2026, and is exciting to be working in the labor movement again after having begun organizing with Unite HERE locals in New Haven as a Yale undergraduate. Since coming to Cambridge in 2021, she has organized as a JOIN for Justice fellow with Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light and as a volunteer with IfNotNow and local immigrant defense work. Outside of organizing, she has worked at several local synagogues as a youth educator, as well as at Kolbo Judaica Gallery in Brookline.

Miriam can be reached at miriamc@jewishlabor.org.

OUR BOARD

Co-Chairs

• Ashley Adams, Massachusetts Teachers Association

• Ora Gladstone, retired Massachusetts Teachers Association

Rabbinic Advisor

Rabbi Barbara Penzner, Temple Hillel B'nai Torah

Board Members

• Marya Axner

• Dick Bauer, Greater Boston Legal Services, UAW Local 2320

• Emma Rose Borzekowski, SEIU 509

• Aaron Dockser, Massachusetts Teachers Association

• Joanne Goldstein, New England Regional Council of Carpenters

• Nathan Goldstein

• Don Siegel, Segal Roitman LLP

• Rose Bookbinder, Massachusetts Nurses Association