Leonard Carder LLP, Hayes Dolce, Satter Ruhlen, Arnold Newbold Sollars & Hollins, Sheet Metal Workers Local 104, Drivers Union WA, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Workers Defense Project (NDLON), Fair Work, P.C., Lubin and Enoch P.C., Solidarity Law, Saltzman & Johnson, and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). More organizations are already applying to become new 2024 mentors. Awards Receptions recognize leaders in workers’ rights and workplace justice As part of PBF’s 25th Anniversary celebration, PBF recognized labor leaders Maria Castaneda, Secretary-Treasurer, 1199SEIU Healthcare Workers East; Franklin K. Moss, Partner, Spivak Lipton LLP; Jacquelin F. Drucker, Arbitrator, Arbitration Offices of Jacquelin F. Drucker, Esq.; Lorena Gonzalez, California Labor Federation; Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, Berkeley Law; Child Care Providers United (CCPU); and PBF’s own former Executive Director, Mary Anne Moffa. Reflecting our community, investing in our future: A new brand, a new website, and new technology. Beginning at the 2022 National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference, PBF launched an intensive process assessing its brand and stakeholder perceptions of our legacy and future. We are launching our new logo and identity with this report. In 2022, we began the long process of modernizing our IT infrastructure. We updated our back-end system and began mapping an ambitious upgrade to our website that will become an interactive community portal in late 2023 or early 2024. This investment in technology will allow us to be faster, more creative as we focus on real relationships, and more strategic for our next 25 years. Counsel of NLRB; Chris Smalls, Retu Singla, Seth Goldstein, and Eric Milner of the Amazon Labor Union; and Melinda Ciccocioppo, David Jury, Inga Schmidt, Robin J. Sowards presenting on the United Steelworkers’ efforts organizing cultural workers in Pittsburgh. This was PBF’s best attended conference, helped along by the investments we made in new scholarships that removed economic barriers to the experience and our community. Our core conference programming like Introduction to Basic Labor Law and Immigrant Rights are Workers’ Rights continued to receive high rankings in participant evaluation. This year, game changing Amazon Labor Union (ALU) organizer Chris Smalls reached out to us for a chance to speak because the importance of nurturing new labor law talent is increasingly clear. His session was electrifying, as Smalls represents the kind of new voices in the movement this generation of law students admire the most. He engaged them on the spot at the conference to make calls for an upcoming action, enlisting them in a direct organizing effort with ALU, an experience that will solidify the bonds our fellows and other attendees made this year for years to come. Growing the PBF Board To embody our renewed commitment to diversity and inclusion, PBF recruited four new members to our Board of Directors, and they are already having a transformative impact on the way PBF makes key decisions and navigates an ever-changing environment. In 2022, the Board collectively co-created a document we call our Theory of Change, included in this report, to anchor our decisions and maintain focus on PBF’s special contribution to the movement. New Mentor Organizations Expand Student Opportunities In the last three years, PBF partnered with several new mentor organizations from unions, to union-side law firms, to direct services and workplace justice non-profits. These include SMART-TD, Federal Education Association (NEA), PBF’s First Fellows Cohort with more than 100 Fellows 2022, PBF’s 25th year, marked our first Fellows cohort of over 100 students. With an inaugural class of 10 fellows in 1998, PBF has grown to a nationally recognized fellowship program representing over 157 law schools from across the country. This cohort included former organizers, teachers, law students from multigenerational union families, and even a unionized professional dancer! Success Stories: Peggy Browning Fellows Making a Difference 2022 PBF Fellow Anthony Tenney (University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law) worked with Uber and Lyft drivers to address app access and deactivation issues during his fellowship with the Drivers Union affiliated with Teamsters 117. He worked on over 25 cases, with more than 10 drivers reactivated as a direct result of his efforts. 2022 PBF Fellow Grace DuBois (American University Washington College of Law) published a two-part article on forced arbitration and wage theft as part of her fellowship with the Center for Progressive Reform. 2022 PBF Fellow Katie Parker (Georgetown University Law Center) produced both Know Your Rights materials and a memo utilized by her host organization as part of her fellowship with AFSCME. Katie not only updated AFSCME’s employee guidance blog, but drafted a persuasive memo later brought by AFSCME under Nevada’s public sector collective bargaining statute. A Return to an in-person conference After two years of remote conferences, PBF returned to in-person programming with the 2022 National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference at the Maritime Conference Center outside of Baltimore, MD. Attended by over 200 law students, the two-day conference featured Jennifer A. 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