Ana Avendaño
Bio:
Ana Avendaño brings over three decades of nationally recognized expertise in workplace law, workplace conflict management, and the design and delivery of sexual harassment prevention systems. She has held senior positions in the labor movement, playing major roles in changing the labor movement’s position on immigration and broadening the AFL-CIO’s vision to include worker centers and other nontraditional worker organizations. She served as an Assistant General Counsel to the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and Associate General Counsel to the AFL-CIO, and Assistant to the AFL-CIO President for Immigration and Community Action.
Avendaño has been published in academic journals, quoted as an expert on sexual harassment and the labor movement by various publications, and spoken at numerous academic and industry conferences on sexual harassment and labor. She has spearheaded initiatives addressing sexual harassment and building sustainable cultures of dignity, equity, and accountability. She has crafted multi-sector collaborations, developed curricula for popular education-based training programs, and published extensively on union responses to workplace harassment, including her recent book, Solidarity Betrayed: How Unions Enable Sexual Harassment — and How They Can Do Better.
Avendaño runs Minga Strategies, a consulting firm whose mission is to create workplaces where passion and creativity thrive, and bullies do not. She is also an adjunct professor of labor and employment law at the City University of New York Law School, the University of Texas Law School, and the UDC David Clarke School of Law.
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