Instructors & Staff

Armando Olivas

Regional Director, AFL-CIO Community Services, B.S. Human Services, CSU Fullerton (1980).

Caroline O’Connor

Director of Communications, Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Masters in Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (2009).

Cheryl Wallach

Worker’s Comp. Attorney and Partner, Ford and Wallach, J.D. Pepperdine University (1991). Ford and Wallach Facebook Page

Chuck Adinolfi

Field Director, UFCW Local 324, A.A. Social Science, Rio Hondo College.

Ericka Wills

Labor Educator, United Steelworkers District 12, M.S. English, Illinois State University.

Goetz Wolff

Lecturer, School of Public Affairs, UCLA, M.A. Political Science.

Joaquin Calderon

Recording Secretary, LCLAA-SG Valley, B.A., Political Studies, Pitzer College (1999).

Jody Klipple

Negotiator, SEIU 721, J.D., Southwestern Law School (2011).

John R. McDowell, Jr.

Founder of Labor Center at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, Political Director, LA College Faculty Guild, Local 1521, Chair, California Student Aid Commission, B.A. Social Sciences, M.A. Sociology, California State University, Sacramento (1970).

Joseph L Paller, Jr.

Labor Attorney/Partner, Gilbert & Sackman, J.D., UCLA School of Law (1978).

Josh Young

Kathleen Yasuda

Labor Center Director, Grievance Rep., AFT Local 1521, M.A. Public Policy, Human Services, Education and Labor, Harvard University (1998).

Lewis Levy

Labor Attorney and Partner, Levy Phillips, Southwest University School of Law (1982).

Lou Siegel

Communications Coordinator, Labor Public Relations Specialist, working exclusively with unions on research, writing and strategies for organizing, bargaining and internal campaigns. B.A. Windham College (1975).

Lou Zigman

Arbitrator, Attorney, J.D., George Washington University Law School (1969). Member of National Academy of Arbitrators; formerly with NLRB for 10 years.