Directors and Advisors

Barbara Ehrenreich
UP Founder and Director - Barbara is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine. She lives in Florida.

Bill Holland
UP Director and Chairman - Bill was Chief Human Resources Officer at Meridian Bank, the University of Pennsylvania and the Business Process Outsourcing Division of Accenture (Andersen Consulting). He also held senior HR positions at Chase Manhattan Bank, Charles Schwab and PepsiCo. He has just published Are There Any Good Jobs Left? Career Management in the Age of the Disposable Worker (Praeger, July 31, 2006). He currently runs R. William Holland Consulting, LLC which specializes in career management.

Duane Stillwell
UP Director - Duane is Founder and General Counsel of Prewitt Organizing Fund - a self-funding non-profit that provides resource and strategic support for a wide variety of labor and non-profit organizations. Stillwell began his legal and organizing career in 1986 and has held various executive organizing positions until forming Prewitt in 2000. He is also the Principal Member of Direct Organizing Group.

Trude Diamond
UP Director - Trude has been an employee and manager in public and private sector organizations - from the Baltimore City public school system to multi-national telecommunications and software companies. As a white-collar corporate educator, Trude has fought for equity during the recent decades of eroding employee benefits and salaries.

Tom Lewandowski
UP Director - Tom is president of Workers’ Project, Inc. and a four term New Haven, Indiana city councilman. In the mid 1990’s he lived in Eastern Europe working with Solidarnosc in Poland and KOZ in Slovakia to develop democratic systems of worker representation in the emerging labor markets. He has worked a wide variety of jobs including primary research historian, brewery supervisor, and driveway salesman for Shell Oil Company. He is also president of Northeast Indiana Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

Tamara Draut
UP Director - Tamara is the author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead and is the Director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos a public policy center based in New York City. She has written extensively about major economic issues facing Americans and has conducted groundbreaking research on household debt in America, with a specific focus on the challenges confronting a new generation of workers. Her work has been covered extensively by dozens of newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Tamara is a frequent television commentator and has appeared on the Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and Fox News. Strapped is her first book.

Jared Bernstein
UP Director - Economic Policy Institute - Director of the Living Standards Program. Jared is the author of "All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy." His areas of research include income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, low-wage labor markets and poverty, international comparisons, and the analysis of federal and state economic policies. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is the co-author of seven editions of the book "State of Working America" and has published extensively in popular and academic venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, and Research in Economics and Statistics.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.
UP Director - American Federation of Government Employees - Director of Field Services & Education JBill Fletcher, Jr., is the Director of Field Services & Education for the American Federation of Government Employees. He also serves as the executive editor of BlackCommentator.com (www.blackcommentator.com). Prior to joining AFGE, Bill was the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College-City University of New York. From January 2002 through April 2006 he served as the President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Sara Horowitz
UP Advisory Board - Freelancers Union - Founder and Executive Director. Sara founded Working Today in 1995 to represent the needs and concerns of the growing independent workforce. She is a past recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Before founding Working Today, Sara was a labor attorney in private practice and a union organizer with 1199, the National Health and Human Service Employees Union. Prior to joining 1199, Sara was a public defender in New York City.

Richard Sennett
UP Advisory Board - Richard is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. His latest work, The Culture of the New Capitalism, surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place.


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ABOUT BECOME A MEMBER CHAPTER BUILDING RESOURCES & SERVICES BLOGS & NEWS FORUM BOOKSHELF CONTACT UP	Directors and Advisors Barbara Ehrenreich UP Founder and Director - Barbara is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine. She lives in Florida. Bill Holland UP Director and Chairman - Bill was Chief Human Resources Officer at Meridian Bank, the University of Pennsylvania and the Business Process Outsourcing Division of Accenture (Andersen Consulting). He also held senior HR positions at Chase Manhattan Bank, Charles Schwab and PepsiCo. He has just published Are There Any Good Jobs Left? Career Management in the Age of the Disposable Worker (Praeger, July 31, 2006). He currently runs R. William Holland Consulting, LLC which specializes in career management. Duane Stillwell UP Director - Duane is Founder and General Counsel of Prewitt Organizing Fund - a self-funding non-profit that provides resource and strategic support for a wide variety of labor and non-profit organizations. Stillwell began his legal and organizing career in 1986 and has held various executive organizing positions until forming Prewitt in 2000. He is also the Principal Member of Direct Organizing Group. Trude Diamond UP Director - Trude has been an employee and manager in public and private sector organizations - from the Baltimore City public school system to multi-national telecommunications and software companies. As a white-collar corporate educator, Trude has fought for equity during the recent decades of eroding employee benefits and salaries. Tom Lewandowski UP Director - Tom is president of Workers’ Project, Inc. and a four term New Haven, Indiana city councilman. In the mid 1990’s he lived in Eastern Europe working with Solidarnosc in Poland and KOZ in Slovakia to develop democratic systems of worker representation in the emerging labor markets. He has worked a wide variety of jobs including primary research historian, brewery supervisor, and driveway salesman for Shell Oil Company. He is also president of Northeast Indiana Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Tamara Draut UP Director - Tamara is the author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead and is the Director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos a public policy center based in New York City. She has written extensively about major economic issues facing Americans and has conducted groundbreaking research on household debt in America, with a specific focus on the challenges confronting a new generation of workers. Her work has been covered extensively by dozens of newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Tamara is a frequent television commentator and has appeared on the Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and Fox News. Strapped is her first book. Jared Bernstein UP Director - Economic Policy Institute - Director of the Living Standards Program. Jared is the author of "All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy." His areas of research include income inequality and mobility, trends in employment and earnings, low-wage labor markets and poverty, international comparisons, and the analysis of federal and state economic policies. Between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is the co-author of seven editions of the book "State of Working America" and has published extensively in popular and academic venues, including The New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, and Research in Economics and Statistics. Bill Fletcher, Jr. UP Director - American Federation of Government Employees - Director of Field Services & Education JBill Fletcher, Jr., is the Director of Field Services & Education for the American Federation of Government Employees. He also serves as the executive editor of BlackCommentator.com (www.blackcommentator.com). Prior to joining AFGE, Bill was the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College-City University of New York. From January 2002 through April 2006 he served as the President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Sara Horowitz UP Advisory Board - Freelancers Union - Founder and Executive Director. Sara founded Working Today in 1995 to represent the needs and concerns of the growing independent workforce. She is a past recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Before founding Working Today, Sara was a labor attorney in private practice and a union organizer with 1199, the National Health and Human Service Employees Union. Prior to joining 1199, Sara was a public defender in New York City. Richard Sennett UP Advisory Board - Richard is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. His latest work, The Culture of the New Capitalism, surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. © Copyright 2006 United Professionals 1-888-55-UP-NOW! \| Contact Us	Sign up for UP news, members-only information, tips for your job and more. Services > Job Help > Legal Help > Fill out this questionnaire to speak your mind about the ongoing direction of UP. Take Survey > UP Blog >