Board of Directors
Jared Abbott
Jared Abbott is a political scientist, professor, and director of the Center for Working-Class Politics with nearly two decades of experience in progressive politics and the labor movement. His research focuses on class politics, participatory democracy and the Left in the United States and Latin America. His work has been published or is forthcoming in a range of political science journals, and has appeared or been featured in a wide array of popular media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC Radio, Newsweek, The Guardian, The American Prospect, The Nation, The New Left Review, and The Boston Review, among others.
jared@workingclasspolitics.orgDustin Guastella
Dustin "Dino" Guastella is Director of Operations for Teamsters Local 623 in Philadelphia.
guastella@workingclasspolitics.orgMatt Karp
Matt Karp is an associate professor of history at Princeton University and a contributing editor at Jacobin.
matt@workingclasspolitics.orgKatie Rader
Katie Rader is a political scientist specializing in race and labor politics in the United States.
Bhaskar Sunkara
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine, the editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine, as well as the publisher of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and the UK-based Tribune.
bhaskar@workingclasspolitics.orgResearch Associates
Fred DeVeaux
Fred DeVeaux is PhD student in Political Science at UCLA studying class politics and democracy.
Leanne Fan
Leanne Fan is a sociology student at the Graduate Center, CUNY she researches working-class political movements.
Carissa Guadron
Carissa Guadron is a researcher in New York City working in police oversight. She has a background in economics and social stratification research, and is interested in the politics of class and race.
Milan Loewer
Milan Loewer is a PhD student in political science studying political cleavages and party systems in the U.S. and Europe.
Sean Mason
Sean Mason is a data scientist based in Philadelphia. His research focuses on analyzing large datasets to understand the appeal of progressive economic policies across demographic groups.
Isaac Rabbani
Isaac Rabbani is an economist and a research associate at the Center for Working-Class Politics.
Sam Zacher
Sam Zacher is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California studying class, identity, and policy conflict in the Democratic Party.
Nima Tootkaboni
Nima Tootkaboni is a researcher and data analyst based in New York City. He holds an MA in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and conducts research on social stratification and class theory.
Carson Kindred
Carson Kindred is a recent graduate of Emory University and an incoming masters student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.