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Jaz Brisack

Jaz Brisack is a union organizer and cofounder of the Inside Organizer School, which trains workers to unionize. After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, they got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United Upstate New York and Vermont, they worked with organizing committees at companies ranging from Ben and Jerry’s to Tesla.

2025 Inside Ideas
Speaker - Organized Resistance From the Ground Up
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