Mandi Jackson

Mandi Isaacs Jackson has two decades of strategy, research, and leadership development experience in the labor movement, community and political organizing, and the non-profit sector. She worked as an organizer and researcher with UNITE-HERE, where she organized and led strategic research campaigns in the academic and hospitality sectors and led community and political programs to increase community access to good union jobs and build worker power within global corporations and institutions. She has also served as executive director of a community-based non-profit organization. She has worked as a teacher, professor, and community educator/activist and consulted on leadership development, research, and campaign strategy work in the non-profit and social movement sector nationally. She has published book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in the fields of urban studies, history, and labor and community studies, and her book Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven (Temple University Press, 2008) won the 2008 Jane Jacobs Publication Award from the Urban Communication Foundation. Mandi received her Ph.D. from Yale University, her BA from Northwestern University, and her education from the labor movement.