{"id":38,"date":"2015-06-28T20:03:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njfac.wordpress.com\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:43:50","slug":"njfac-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/about-njfac\/njfac-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

NJFAN Key Roles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Chair
\nCharles Bell, Vice-Chair and Legislative Committee
\nSheila Collins, Secretary-Treasurer
\nPhillip Harvey, Counsel
\nLogan Martinez, National Outreach Coordinator
\nJune Zaccone, web updates<\/p>\n

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NJFAN Board of Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan A. Aja<\/a>, <\/strong>Assoc. Prof, Deputy Chairperson, Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Brooklyn College-CUNY; author Miami’s Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization and the Local Afro-Cuban Experience, <\/em>co-author, “What We Get Wrong About Closing the Wealth Gap” and many other articles; formerly labor organizer.<\/p>\n

Barbara “Jesse” Arms,\u00a0<\/strong>organizing the grass roots community in St. Clair County, Illinois to empower poor and homeless people. Under the guidance of full employment leader Bertram Gross, organized the community in San Francisco\/Bay Area in support of\u00a0 a Full Employment bill written by Gross and sponsored by Congressman Ron Dellums. That bill evolved into our current Jobs for All Act, H.R. 1000.<\/p>\n

Ron Baiman <\/a><\/strong>teaches Economics in the Benedictine University MBA program, is a prolific author, including two recent books: The Global Free Trade Error: The Infeasibility of Ricardo\u2019s <\/em>Comparative Advantage Theory<\/em>, and The Morality of <\/em>Radical Economics: Ghost Curve Ideology and the Value Neutral Aspect of <\/em>Neoclassical Economics. <\/em>He has served for many years on the Editorial Board of the Review of Radical Political Economics<\/em>, and is a member of the Chicago Political Economy Group. Many of his articles can be found on their web site [cpegonline.org<\/a>].<\/p>\n

William (Bill) Barclay <\/strong><\/a>had a distinguished career in financial services, including service on the boards of the Illinois Finance Authority and the Chicago Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. A leader in progressive activism since the 1960s, he is a founding member of Democratic Socialists of America and of the Chicago Political Economy Group, closely affiliated with NJFAN.\u00a0 He has published extensively on economic issues, including the 2008 financial crisis, job creation, and recently on the political economy impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic.<\/p>\n

Chuck Bell<\/strong><\/a>, Programs Director, Consumer Reports;\u00a0 working closely with Consumers Reports’ advocacy team in California,\u00a0 New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C. on a wide range of consumer policy issues, including health care, financial services, energy, telecommunications, and the environment.<\/p>\n

Ra\u00fal Carrillo<\/a>,<\/strong> Staff Attorney, New Economy Project; former Special Counsel to the Enforcement Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Modern Money Network, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, ClassCrits, and APPEAL (Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law); research focuses on financial justice and full employment, most notably a constitutional right to a job.<\/p>\n

Sheila Collins<\/strong><\/a>, Prof. Emerita of Political Science, William Paterson University and former director of its graduate program in Public Policy and International Affairs; specializing in and writing books and articles on American politics and public policy, including poverty, welfare, employment, and environmental politics and policy.<\/p>\n

Noreen Connell<\/strong><\/a>, former Exec. Dir, Educational Priorities Panel, NY State; former Pres. of NOW, NY State; former Asst. Commissioner, NY State \u00a0Dept. of \u00a0Labor.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Michael Feinberg<\/strong><\/a>, Exec. Dir., Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition; served on staff of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change; currently on the boards of the Rural and Migrant Ministry, the Bertram M. Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty at Fordham University, and Metropolitan New York Religious Campaign against Torture.<\/p>\n

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg<\/strong>,<\/a> Prof. Emerita, Adelphi University and former chair of its doctoral \u00a0program in social work; specializing in and writing \u00a0books and articles about \u00a0women\u2019s poverty, comparative welfare states, history of work and welfare policy\u00a0 in the U.S., and popular\u00a0 movements.<\/p>\n

Rohan Grey<\/a>,<\/strong> doctoral fellow at Cornell Law School exploring the intersection of law, technology, and political economics; president of the Modern Money Network, research scholar with the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a technical consultant with eCurrency Mint Ltd., and an ambassador for the FreedomBox Foundation; practiced law as a child advocate in family court; conducted legal and policy research for Americans for the Arts, the Louisiana Sentencing Commission, and the New York City Department of Education, and authored a book chapter titled “Who Owns the Intellectual Fruits of Job Guarantee Labor?” in M. Forstater & M. Murray (Eds.), (2017), The Job Guarantee and Modern Money Theory. <\/em><\/p>\n

Rev. Dr. Douglas Grote<\/strong><\/a>, pastor; psychotherapist; writer on theological, psychological and evolutionary roots of evolutionary economics; long- time activist for social justice.<\/p>\n

Darrick Hamilton<\/strong><\/a>, Henry Cohen Prof, Economics and Urban Policy, founding dir., Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at The New School; focusing on causes, consequences, and remedies of racial and ethnic inequality in economic and health outcomes; Past Pres., National Economic Association. Hamilton has been involved in crafting policy proposals, such as Baby Bonds and a Federal Job Guarantee, which have served as inspirations for legislative proposals at the federal, state and local levels.<\/p>\n

Philip Harvey<\/strong><\/a>, Prof. of Law and Economics, Rutgers University; internationally recognized expert on the right to work; principal advisor to Rep. John Conyers on the design of HR 1000, the Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act.<\/p>\n

Greg N. Heires<\/strong><\/a>, Sr. Assoc. Editor, Public Employee Press of \u00a0DC 37; author of blog, “New Crossroads,” focusing on political and economic analysis.<\/p>\n

Robert D. Leighninger, Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, editor, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare;<\/em> author of prize-winning books, Long Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal,<\/em> and Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration.<\/em><\/p>\n

Logan Martinez<\/strong>, long-time community organizer, National Outreach Coordinator, National Jobs for All Coalition, based in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Rev. Glencie\u00a0 Rhedrick<\/strong><\/a>, associate\u00a0minister, First Baptist Church-West, Charlotte, N.C.; local and national community activist, former president, Mecklenburg Ministries; member of the executive board, United Missionary Baptist Association (UMBA). Nationally, Rep. Rhedrick serves on the following boards: Justice Action Mobilization Network (JAMN); People Demanding Action (PDA) and Truth, Reconciliation & Anti-Poverty Commission (TRAC); hosts a national Blogtalk radio show on the PDA Network.<\/p>\n

Eduardo Rosario<\/strong><\/a>, Grievance Rep. for AFSCME 375 who has held numerous elected and appointed positions in the labor movement, including Executive Board Member, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and representative of the U.S. labor movement as a juror in the International Conference\u00a0 Against Child Labor and Forced Labor.<\/p>\n

Frank Stricker<\/strong><\/a>, \u00a0Prof. Emeritus of History, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Labor Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills; author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty and How to Win It.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pavlina R. Tcherneva<\/strong><\/a>, Dir., Economic Democracy Initiative, Assoc. Prof. of Economics at Bard College, Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, and founding member of the Democratizing Work global campaign. She specializes in Modern Monetary Theory and public policy and is the author of the internationally acclaimed book, The Case for a Job Guarantee<\/i> (2020).<\/p>\n

Stephen <\/strong>Monroe <\/b>Tomczak<\/strong><\/a> , <\/em>Assoc. Prof. of Social Welfare Policy & Community Organization at the Southern Connecticut State University Department of Social Work.\u00a0 Dr. Tomczak has an extensive background in social work education and research, particularly in the areas of social welfare policy, poverty and economic inequality, and the history of social work and social welfare.\u00a0\u00a0 His publications and conference presentations \u00a0on these topics include the use of full employment policy as an anti-poverty strategy.
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L. Randall Wray<\/a>,<\/strong> Prof. of Economics, Bard College; long-time advocate of job guarantee; expert on Modern Money Theory.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Board Member Emerita:<\/strong><\/p>\n

June Zaccone<\/strong><\/a>, Assoc. Prof. Emerita of Economics, Hofstra University, specializing in international trade; webmaster of National Jobs for All Coalition, 1998-2015;\u00a0 articles on trade agreements, Social Security, robots, employment and unemployment.<\/p>\n

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NJFAN Advisory Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elaine Allen, M.D., former President, NY Physicians for Social Responsibility
\nEileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist, Center for Economic & Policy Research
\nBill Ayres, Co-founder and Exec. Director, Why Hunger
\nElaine Bernard, Director, Trade Union Program, Harvard University
\nRuth A. Brandwein, Professor of Social Policy, SUNY-Stony Brook
\nM. Harvey Brenner, Professor of Health Policy and Mgt, Johns Hopkins University
\nTimothy Canova, Professor of Law and Public Finance, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
\nHarold Chorney, Professor of Public Policy, Concordia Univ. (Canada); International Research Group on Employment
\nDarryl Fagin, Leg. Director, Americans for Democratic Action
\nJeff Faux, Past President, Economic Policy Institute
\nMathew Forstater, Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri-Kansas City
\nJames K. Galbraith, Professor of Economics, University of Texas, Austin
\nHerbert J. Gans, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Past President, American Sociology Association
\nDavid Gil, Professor of Social Policy, Brandeis University
\nWoodrow Ginsburg, Chair, Economic Policy Com., ADA
\nJerome Grossman, Chair (Emeritus), Council for a Livable World
\nDenis M. Hughes, Former President, NY State AFL-CIO
\nBenjamin K. Hunnicutt, Sr., Professor of Leisure Studies, University of Iowa
\nRhoda H. Karpatkin, President Emeritus, Consumers Union
\nGordon Lafer, Professor of Economics, Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon (Eugene)
\nStaughton Lynd, Lawyer and Historian
\nRay Marshall, Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economic and Public Affairs, University of Texas and former US Secretary of Labor
\nRabbi J. Rolando Matalon, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
\nLawrence Mishel, President, EPI, co-author, The State of Working America<\/em>
\nJulio Morales, Professor, School of Social Work, Univ. of Connecticut
\nScott Myers-Lipton,\u00a0 Prof. of Sociology, San Jos\u00e9 State University, author of Ending Extreme Inequality<\/em>
\nHon. Jerrold Nadler, US Congress, House
\nKatherine Newman, Professor, Sociology, Princeton University
\nJocelyn Pixley, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of New South Wales, Australia
\nRobert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Ctr. & Professor of Economics, UMASS\/Amherst
\nHelen Prejean, C.S.J., Chair, Coalition for Abolition of the Death Penalty
\nWilliam P. Quigley, Janet Mary Riley Disting. Professor of Law, & Dir., Poverty Law Center, Loyola University
\nTherese Rajaniemi, Unemployment activist (Sweden)
\nRev. Charles Rawlings, Director (ret.), Urban Initiatives Program, National Council of Churches of Christ, USA
\nRobert B. Reich, Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; former Secretary of Labor former Secretary of Labor
\nMarkley Roberts, former Asst. Director of Econ. Research, AFL-CIO
\nFrank Roosevelt, Professor of Economics, Sarah Lawrence College
\nNancy Rose, Professor of Economics, Cal. State University, San Bernardino
\nVirginia Sanchez-Korrol, Chair, Puerto Rican Studies, Brooklyn College
\nWilliam E. Scheuerman, President, United University Professions, NYS
\nJuliet Schor, Professor, Sociology, Boston College
\nRuth Sidel, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College
\nVictor Sidel, M.D., Dist. Univ. Professor, Albert Einstein Sch. of Med.
\nTheda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
\nFrank Stricker, Emeritus Professor, History, CSU-Dominguez Hills
\nMark di Suvero, Sculptor
\nMarc R. Tool, Past President, Association for Evolutionary Economics
\nRichard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO
\nJoseph B. Uehlein, Exec. Dir, Labor Network for Sustainability, & former Director, Strategic Campaigns, AFL-CIO
\nCornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice,\u00a0Union Theological Seminary
\nCharles J. Whalen, Instit.for Industry Studies, Cornell University
\nWilliam Julius Wilson, Professor of Social Policy, Harvard University
\nKent Wong, Director, Center for Labor Research & Education., UCLA<\/p>\n

The National Jobs For All Network remembers its late advisers and leaders with gratitude:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winifred Bell, social policy scholar
\nAlice H. Cook, labor educator; advocate for working women
\nFrank Bonilla, dedicated Latino scholar-activist
\nRobert Eisner, Past President, Am. Econ. Association
\nOssie Davis, playwright, leading actor, civil rights activist
\nThe Rev. Dr. Robert W. Edgar, Congress, General Secretary, NCCC, Common Cause
\nJohn Kenneth Galbraith, Past President, American Econ. Association, noted author
\nHelen Lachs Ginsburg, Economist, authority on full employment U.S. and Sweden
\nBertram Gross, chief drafter of the Employment Act of 1946 & Humphrey-Hawkins Act
\nJames Haughton, Director, Harlem Fight Back
\nHon. Augustus Hawkins, US Congress, House, co-author, Humphrey\/Hawkins “Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978”
\nRobert Heilbroner, author, The Worldly Philosophers
\nJ\u00f6rg Huffschmid, a founder, Alternative Economic Policy for Europe
\nWalter Johnson, Secretary\/Treasurer, San Francisco Central Labor Council
\nManning Marable, Director, Institute For Research in African-American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
\nSeymour Melman, scholar-critic of the Permanent War Economy
\nRudolf Meidner, architect of Swedish full-employment, welfare state
\nWard Morehouse, Bhopal, anti-corporate activist
\nSumner M. Rosen, scholar-activist
\nPete Seeger, Folk-singer and Environmentalist
\nJack Sheinkman, President Emeritus, Amalgamated, Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO
\nRobert J. Schwartz, co-founder, Economists Allied Against the Arms Race
\nHerbert Simon, Nobel Laureate, Economics, pioneer in artificial intelligence
\nSir Hans Singer, innovator, development economics
\nWilliam Vickrey, Nobel Laureate, Economics, and advocate of “chock-full” employment
\nElizabeth Wickenden, social welfare and Social Security policy consultant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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