Marilyn Sneiderman is the Executive Director of Center of Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) and is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. Previously, Sneiderman directed the National AFL-CIO’s Department of Field Mobilization for 10 years, where she launched the national "Union Cities" initiative to increase the community/labor capacity to support and win organizing, political and policy campaigns around economic and racial justice in states and cities throughout the country.