The Peggy Browning Fund Summer Newsletter 2021

6 Since the onset of the pandemic, all of our awards programs across the country used a virtual platform. This led to working to overcome many challenges from video productions to fundraising. It also led to unexpected opportunities to reconnect with many of our past awardees, Host Committee members and donors. Everyone was eager to help make each event a success for the awardees who were recognized and beneficial to our programs. We were also compelled to better hone our message and pursue new lines of communications about our programs. Each awards program fea- tured strong messages about the labor movement, the importance of lawyers to the labor movement and that more students pursuing a career as a labor or employment lawyer is critical to the movement’s future. Our awardees spoke of the importance of the Peggy Browning Fund’s programs and that they are instrumental in providing new legal minds to labor and the movement. Awards Programs Became Virtual All Stepped Up to Ensure Success! Los Angeles Awards Program – March 3rd PBF’s Los Angeles Virtual Awards Program recognized Eric Tate, secretary-treasurer, Teamsters Local 848; Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief operations officer, SAG-AFTRA; and the Educators Campaign, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). Additional remarks were provided by our special guest speaker, Ron Herrera, president, Los Angeles Federation of Labor, and our emcee was PBF’s Julie Gutman Dickinson, partner with Bush Gottlieb. They kept the program moving. The president of UTLA, Cecily Myart-Cruz, accepted the Peggy Browning Award on behalf of the Educators Campaign. Hugo Garcia, PBF’20 & ’21, shared his 2020 summer experience during a pan- demic at United Food & Commercial Workers union. Hugo stated, “Even though the labor movement faces a lot of challenges, I know that the training I received, through my summer fellowship, has prepared me for the journey ahead.” 2021 Los Angeles Reception Sponsors Guardian Bush Gottlieb, A Law Corporation Gilbert & Sackman Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers, LLP SEIU Local 721 Teamsters Joint Council 7 Teamsters Joint Council 42 Teamsters Local 350 Teamsters Local 396 Teamsters Local 853 Teamsters Local 2010 United Domestic Workers of America Fellow Altshuler Berzon LLP California Teachers Association Hayes, Ortega & Sanchez, LLP IATSE LIUNA Local 300 Rothner, Segall & Greenstone SAG-AFTRA Teamsters Local 315 Teamsters Local 431 USW District 12 USW Local 675 Wohlner Kaplon Cutler Halford & Rosenfeld Awardee Eric Tate accepting the Peggy Browning Award Cecily Myart-Cruz accepting the award on behalf of United Teachers Los Angeles’ Educators Campaign. Hugo Garcia, PBF’20 &’21 “My message tonight is to keep giving, to keep giving until PBF gets everything that they need to get as many attorneys out there for us, instead of those attorneys going to the corporate side.”, stated Eric Tate.