Persistence in the Face of Crisis: A 2025 Labor Spring Discussion
Lane Windham, Georgetown University

Wednesday, April 2nd, 12:00-2:00 PM
Walter Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
5401 Cass Ave., Detroit MI 48202
2nd Floor Conference Room (#200)

Lane Windham is Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and directs WILL Empower. Dr. Windham is an experienced organizer, educator, historian and activist. She holds a doctoral degree in U.S. history and her book about union organizing in the 1970s, Knocking on Labor’s Door, has been met with critical acclaim since coming out in 2017. Lane spent nearly twenty years working in the union movement, including as media outreach director and specialist for the national AFL-CIO from 1998 to 2009. She organized unions among clothing and textile workers throughout the South in the 1990s. Her current research focuses on how working people can best build power within today’s shifting economy. She has published widely on issues of class, race, gender, economic justice and the future of work.

This event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served.