The National Center Board of Advisors is a labor-management board with a balanced membership of higher education administrators and union leaders. The Board meets semi-annually to provide guidance to the Executive Director in the functioning of the National Center, to help maintain a cooperative dialogue among labor representatives and administrators in higher education, and to provide ideas and support for the National Center’s initiatives including an annual conference and the Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents.

Candi Churchill, Executive Director, United Faculty of Florida-NEA-AFT. Candi started out with UFF as a local leader with Graduate Assistants United (the UF chapter) in 2000 as a UFF Senator, Steward for Sociology and Chair of the Health Insurance campaign. She began working professionally for UFF in 2002 when all 11 university faculty chapters were threatened with decertification by the Jeb administration’s devolution of the State University System. That campaign yielded over 70% support from faculty at all the universities and two re-certification elections at UWF and FSU (which both yielded over 94% yes votes). From 2006-2021, she was a Service Unit Director working with chapters to strengthen capacity and grow membership, as well as providing trainings, handling arbitrations and impasse, and supporting members facing crises. She enjoys time hiking in the mountains, swimming in North Florida’s beautiful springs, playing board games, and organizing in movements for women’s liberation and building the voice and power of workers.

Michael Eagen is associate provost for academic personnel at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst where he oversees academic human resources and faculty collective bargaining. Prior to joining UMASS, Michael served as the director of faculty and staff labor relations for the University of Connecticut, where he provided leadership and direction for the university’s employee relations and collective bargaining functions. He also served as counsel for labor and employment within UConn’s Office of the General Counsel. Eagen received his B.A. in economics from the University of Connecticut and his J.D., cum laude, from Western New England University School of Law.

Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). Dr. Daniel Greenstein became the fifth chancellor of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education on September 4, 2018. In that role, he serves as chief executive officer of the State System, which operates Pennsylvania’s 14 public universities, serving nearly 100,000 degree-seeking students and thousands more enrolled in certificate and other career-development programs.​ The chancellor works with the Board of Governors to recommend and develop overall policies for the System. Greenstein previously led the Postsecondary Success strategy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he worked with other higher education leaders across the country on initiatives designed to raise educational-attainment levels and to promote economic mobility, especially among low-income and minority students. He developed and implemented a national strategy for increasing the number of degrees awarded and for reducing the attainment gaps among majority and non-majority students at U.S. colleges and universities. Before joining the foundation, Greenstein was Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Programs for the University of California (UC) system. In that role, he oversaw system-wide academic planning and programs, including the University of California Press; the California Digital Library; the UC system’s Education Abroad Program; internship programs in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento; and UC Online Education. Greenstein has created and led several internet-based academic information services in the United States and the United Kingdom, and served on boards and acted in strategic consulting roles for educational, cultural heritage, and information organizations. He began his academic career as a senior lecturer in Modern History at Glasgow University in Scotland. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Jenny Ho is a mother of three and the Assistant Director of Research and Collective Bargaining for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) International Union. Jenny has over a decade of experience in the labor movement. She has previously served as the Director of Advocacy for the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE), a Labor Economist for AFSCME International, a strategic researcher for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), and a community organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Jenny has a master's in Public Administration from Cornell University, in which she completed her graduate research on organizing Asian American workers.

Dean Hubbard is the Executive Director of the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, the union of more than 30,000 active and retired faculty and staff at the City University of New York, the nation's largest urban university system. Previously, he was Director of Collective Bargaining at the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents 200,000 transportation workers throughout the United States and Canada. From 2013-2017, he was Director of the Labor and Economic Justice Program at the Sierra Club, the nation's largest grass roots environmental organization. At the Transport Workers Union of America (2008-2012), he was responsible for strategic campaigns, legal advocacy and research on policy and organizing matters worldwide. He has taught at CUNY’s Murphy Institute (now the School for Labor and Urban Studies) and at Sarah Lawrence College, where he was the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy and Advocacy and established the Institute for Policy Alternatives (IPA). He co-founded the progressive workers’ rights law firm Eisner & Hubbard, P.C. Dean is a strategic consultant for organizations dedicated to economic, environmental, and racial justice. He has published articles in numerous journals, is an accomplished teacher, and has organized and led tribunals and delegations on labor and human rights issues worldwide.

Joseph Jelincic is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Collective Bargaining at the California State University and serves as the Chief Negotiator for the nation’s largest four-year public university system. Located at the Office of the Chancellor and reporting directly to the Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, Joseph is responsible for the collective bargaining functions for the 23-campus system, which includes over 19,000 represented support staff, approximately 9,000 represented academic student employees, and over 29,000 represented faculty members; all of whom are contained in thirteen (13) different bargaining units with a collective annual compensation cost in excess of $4.2 billion. In his current role, Joseph provides strategic direction and is the principal advisor on collective bargaining issues for the Chancellor and their senior leadership team, Trustees, campus presidents, and other university administrators. Prior to joining Cal State in 2018, Joseph worked for seven years at the California State University Employees Union (CSUEU, SEIU Local 2579), where he served as the chief negotiator. He also has experience in private sector labor relations, in both for-profit and non-profit environments. He has represented both employees and employers in various arenas, including mediation and arbitration, the California State Personnel Board, the California Public Employment Relations Board, the National Labor Relations Board, and the California Occupational Safety & Health Appeals Board.

Alissa G. Karl, Vice President for Academics, United University Professions. Karl of Rochester, NY is an associate professor of English at SUNY Brockport and took office as UUP’s Vice President for Academics in August 2021. Before she became Statewide VPA, Karl was Brockport Chapter President (2019-21) and a member of UUP’s Statewide Executive Board (2020-21). A native of Sacramento, Calif., Karl was raised in a public employee union household. A first-generation college student from a working-class family, she has experienced firsthand how the public sector and organized labor are essential for all people to lead dignified lives. Karl’s path as a scholar and teacher has always included labor activism within higher ed. She became involved in the labor movement in 1999, when she joined the organizing committee for teaching and research assistants at the University of Washington—a union drive that successfully established United Auto Workers Local 4121. During that yearslong fight for union recognition and a contract, she also worked on various organizing campaigns around the country with the UAW. Karl began her career at SUNY in 2007 as an assistant professor in Brockport’s English Department and was promoted to associate professor in 2014. As she was earning tenure and promotion, Karl confronted the struggles that SUNY workers face with inadequate family and parental leave provisions on our campuses–an area in which UUP has since made great strides through the bargaining process. Karl is a specialist in modern and contemporary Anglophone literature; most recently, her work has focused on labor politics and economic imaginaries in contemporary literature and culture. She is author of Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein and Nella Larsen (Routledge, 2009) and co-editor of the collections Neoliberalism and the Novel (Routledge, 2015) and Rereading Empathy (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her articles and book chapters have appeared in a variety of academic and public-facing venues. Karl holds a BA in English from George Washington University (1998), an MA in English from the University of Manchester (UK, 1999), and a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Washington at Seattle (2005).

Risa L. Lieberwitz is a Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), where she has been a professor since 1982. She is an associate in the Worker Institute at Cornell and a co-director of the Cornell University Law and Society minor. Professor Lieberwitz currently holds an appointment as General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). She has also served as a member of AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Professor Lieberwitz teaches a wide range of courses, including Labor and Employment Law, Constitutional Aspects of Labor and Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Arbitration, and Theories of Equality and Their Application in the Workplace. Her research addresses these areas, with a current focus on academic freedom in higher education.

Brandon Mancilla is the Director of UAW Region 9A, representing over 35,000 workers in New York, New England, and Puerto Rico. He was elected to the UAW International Executive Board in the union’s first-ever direct election in December 2022. Previously, he was the first president of the Harvard Graduate Students Union - UAW Local 5118 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His experience with Local 5118 began as a rank-and-file organizer. After beginning graduate school at Harvard University, he joined the organizing drive which delivered one of the largest private sector organizing victories in the last 20 years. During the 29-day long strike of 2019, he was on the strike coordinating team planning university disruptions. As president, Brandon helped build the new local with an emphasis on developing member-led committees to address contract enforcement, anti-harassment organizing, and campus and Boston-area labor solidarity efforts. Under his leadership, Local 5118 went back on strike and won a successor contract in 2021. Brandon has also worked for UAW Local 2325 – the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys in New York City as a local staff organizer. At UAW 2325, he led negotiations on first contract bargaining campaigns and successor agreements; conducted new organizing drives; and designed and led delegate and bargaining committee member trainings. Brandon was born into a working-class Guatemalan immigrant family in New York City. His commitment to building worker power comes in large part from his experience seeing how union membership allowed his family to achieve a level of stability and job protections that working-class immigrants in non-union jobs rarely have. He has a master’s degree in History from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree from Williams College. He currently lives in Queens, New York.

Kenneth M. Mash is the President of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF), which represents approximately 5500 faculty and coaches at the 14 universities comprising Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. In addition to serving as president, he previously served as vice president and chair of the faculty statewide meet & discuss team. He has also served on faculty negotiations teams and the negotiations team for coaches. He is also a member of the National Center’s Board of Advisors. He is on leave from his position as professor at East Stroudsburg University's (ESU) Political Science Department. He holds a B.A. from Queens College-CUNY and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.

Alexandra (Sascha) Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs and Senior Director, Academic Human Resources, University of Michigan. Sascha was appointed Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs and Senior Director of Academic Human Resources at the University of Michigan in June 2019, after serving as interim director since October 2018.  Sascha joined Academic Human Resources in June of 2008, serving as senior academic labor relations representative, associate director and most recently interim senior director.  Prior to coming to University of Michigan, Sascha worked as an assistant general counsel at Wayne State University, where she focused on labor and employment law and collective bargaining issues. Sascha also worked as a union-side attorney in a law firm specializing in public sector labor law in educational settings. Sascha has a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Russian Language from James Madison College at Michigan State University and a Juris Doctor from University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.

Lili Palacios-Baldwin began her career at Robinson & Cole LLP where she practiced in the areas of land use, real estate, and labor and employment law, following co-ops with the Massachusetts Land Court, Equal Rights Advocates, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. Ms. Palacios-Baldwin later served as a Senior Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) where she practiced for almost ten years. While with the EEOC, she litigated individual and class cases within the federal courts, conducted training and public presentations, and worked with federal investigators on both enforcement and litigation matters throughout New England, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.  Upon leaving the EEOC, Ms. Palacios-Baldwin continued her law practice with the firm of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP, a Boston boutique labor, employment and litigation firm.  She currently serves as Deputy General Counsel for Labor, Employment & Litigation at Tufts University, and has been at the university since 2013. Ms. Palacios-Baldwin is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and Northeastern University School of Law.

Scott Phillipson is Chair of the SEIU Higher Education Council.  He is the President of SEIU Local 200United, a union of 15,000 members in New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania.  The Local represents both public and private sector workers in a variety of industries including over 25 Colleges and Universities where the local represents members on both the academic and facilities side of these institutions.  Scott is a graduate of Le Moyne College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Labor Relations and Human Resources and Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law.

Alyssa Picard is the Director of the Higher Education department of the American Federation of Teachers. With 200,000 members, roughly half of whom are contingent, AFT is the largest higher education union in the United States. Dr. Picard previously served on the field staff of AFT Michigan, helping to organize and negotiate first and subsequent contracts for more than 10,000 contingent faculty members over ten years. She earned a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she was the lead negotiator for the Graduate Employees Organization (Local 3550 AFT Michigan, AFL-CIO) when it won the first-ever child care provisions in an American graduate employee contract; subsequently, she staffed the local when it negotiated the first-ever trans-inclusive health insurance benefits in an academic collective bargaining agreement in the US. She is the author of "Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the 20th Century" (Rutgers University Press, 2009), which was named to the American Association of University Press's 2010 "Best of the Best" list, and has taught as an adjunct at Muhlenberg College and in the Wayne State University Labor School, a nondegree program for working adults.

Thomas H. Riley, Jr. is the Executive Director of Labor and Employee Relations and Special Counsel for the University of Illinois System.  For over 30 years Mr. Riley has counseled and represented private and public-sector employers on all aspects of labor and employment law issues, including substantial experience handling complex labor matters in higher education. At the University of Illinois, Mr. Riley oversees negotiations, administration and strategy for the university’s 50 collective bargaining agreements across the three campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield covering many of the approximately 25,000 employees in a wide range of bargaining units such as service and clerical, health care professionals, trades, police, nurses, faculty and graduate student unions.  He counsels university administration to align human resource, budgetary and operational goals and routinely directs and advises on a multitude of labor issues, such as bargaining unit formation, compliance, strikes and picketing, retaliation, interest arbitration, labor litigation and agency matters including unfair labor practice claims and union organizing, arbitration and mediation, and preventive strategies.

Carol Robles-Román, Consultant, Hunter College, the City University of New York.

DeWayne Sheaffer, President of the National Council for Higher Education of the National Education Association (NEA) is a graduate of California State University at Stanislaus, where he earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing.  Following graduation, Mr. Sheaffer took a position at California State University, Los Angeles working in the Admissions and Records Office.  While completing his Master of Science degree in Counseling with an emphasis in higher education, he moved to California State University at Dominguez Hills serving as the supervisor of the graduation unit. Since 1996 he has worked at Long Beach City College (LBCC) in the Counseling and Student Development Department. While at LBCC, he has served in several leadership capacities including Department Chair, Transfer Coordinator, Career Services Coordinator, and Association President at the college.

Letitia F. Silas is the Executive Director of System-wide Labor Relations for the University of California.  As a leader representing employers in traditional labor law, labor-management relations, labor strategy, and employee relations, Letitia has dedicated her career to helping employers develop and execute effective labor relations programs and strategies that meet their business and workforce relations needs and objectives.  Throughout her career, Letitia has been a champion of equity, diversity, inclusion, and professional development for women and individuals from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Letitia’s background includes a unique combination of private and public practice.  In her current role with the University of California, Letitia is responsible for the University’s development and execution of a comprehensive labor relations program and strategy across the University’s 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, and national laboratories and covering over 130,000 employees. This includes leading the University’s system-wide labor relations professionals, responsible for University’s contract negotiations, implementation, interpretation, and administration of labor relations matters. She is also responsible for ensuring the University’s compliance with its 34 collective-bargaining agreements, labor law and policy including, but not limited, the California Higher Education Employee Employer Relations Act (HEERA), various state statutes governing labor relations, Regents Policies, and internal University policy. Prior to joining the University of California, Letitia represented employers in traditional labor and employment matters while at two of the nation’s top exclusively labor and employment law firms. Most recently, she was a partner at Fisher Phillips. Letitia also served as Senior Labor Counsel and Director of Labor Relations for Howard University and Howard University Hospital, where she was responsible for developing the university’s comprehensive labor relations program and strategy, restoring healthy labor relations with the University’s nine labor unions, and representing the University in arbitrations and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”).  Prior to Howard University, Letitia was an associate at law firm Jackson Lewis and a field attorney for the NLRB, where investigated and prosecuted unfair labor practices on behalf of the General Counsel.  In that capacity, she served in both the Boston and Washington DC Regional Offices. Recognized as a leading woman by the Maryland Daily Record, Letitia is a recognized subject matter expert, regular panelist at labor law conferences across the country and served as a Chapter Editor for the ABA’s Developing Labor Law for several years.  Her written work on labor and employment matters has been published in HR Magazine, Law 360, Widener Journal on Law, Economics, and Race, and other legal journals. In addition to her professional career, Letitia is committed to community service.  She has been a member of the United Way Women’s Leadership circle, Western Maryland, served as a volunteer for Dress for Success and various programs for youth in foster care, mentored youth across the country, and currently provides training in professional dress and branding to MBA students Howard University.

Chris Sinclair is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon and the Secretary/Treasurer of the American Association of University Professors. He was the president of the United Academics of the University of Oregon until 2021 and held several other positions on the executive board. He was previously the president of the University of Oregon Senate. A product of public education, his undergraduate degree is from the University of Arizona and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Before Oregon, he had postdocs at the University of British Columbia and the University of Colorado.

Karen R. Stubaus is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Administration at Rutgers, a position she has held since January 2013. She serves as the responsible university administrative officer at Rutgers for a broad array of academic, budgetary, and strategic matters across the university's three geographical campuses in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, as well as for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), a new Rutgers entity created effective July 1, 2013 with the integration of most of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey into Rutgers. Karen has assumed a leadership role in the development and implementation of the first New Brunswick Campus Strategic Plan in over two decades, as well as in the implementation of the university-wide strategic plan. She is responsible for faculty and academic labor relations and provides the interface between Academic Affairs and General Counsel's Office on all faculty matters. Throughout her career Karen has been a leader in increasing the diversity of the faculty and in promoting women's leadership at all levels of the institution. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Douglass College, Karen received her Ph.D. in seventeenth-century American History from Rutgers. She teaches whenever she is able in the School of Arts and Sciences Department of American Studies and in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. Her favorite course is "Death and Dying in American History," which her students note "is not nearly as grim as expected."

Charles Toombs, PhD (Purdue University), is Professor and Immediate Past Chair of Africana Studies, San Diego State University (SDSU). His area of specialization and publications are in African American literature. He is President of the California Faculty Association (CFA) and previous SDSU CFA Chapter President. He serves on AAUP’s Committee A, Academic Freedom and Tenure, and he is one of AAUP’s representatives to the New Deal for Higher Education Campaign Steering Committee. He was one of six U.S. union leaders invited by the Shanghai Education Union for meetings in China, March 2018. He was selected as the San Diego State University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unsung Hero for 2018, 2014 SDSU Faculty Diversity Award recipient, and African American Educator of San Diego County for 2011 by Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. He is committed to anti-racism and social and cultural justice.

Liesl K. Zwicklbauer is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Employee Relations at the State University of New York (SUNY). Liesl received her bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College, and law degree from Albany Law School, Union University. She joined the State University of New York, the nation’s largest public university system, after 7 years of private practice focusing on public sector labor law. Her office represents the University in its relations with unionized faculty and staff (60,000 employees), serving 29 campuses and administering 9 collective bargaining agreements. Liesl concentrates on faculty and professional staff issues, managing and administering the collective bargaining agreement covering over 35,000 faculty and professional staff, representing the Chancellor in both the contract and disciplinary grievance process, and providing technical and strategic advice to campus administrators. Liesl has been a University representative on the State’s team for negotiations with the faculty and professional employee bargaining unit, represented by United University Professions, and the Graduate Student Employees Union, represented by the Communication Workers of America.

Ex-Officio Board of Advisors

Jeffrey Cross is the Former Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Eastern Illinois University (Emeritus). Mr. Cross served in the Teacher Corps in Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, and graduated from Western Kentucky University with an M.A. degree in 1972. He worked for the Illinois Department of Public Health in Springfield, Illinois, before joining the faculty and administrative staff of Ferris State university in 1976, where he served  in a variety of administrative positions including Acting Dean, and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. Mr. Cross was hired at Eastern Illinois University as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1998 and continues in that capacity. He was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004; his dissertation is titled, The Impact of College and University Faculty Collective Bargaining on State Appropriations to Public High Education. Mr. Cross is currently a Board Member of the National Center and is Co-editor of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.

Theodore H. (Terry) Curry is Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University (MSU).  He served from 2007 until 2020 as Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources at MSU with responsibility for faculty affairs issues for more 5700 faculty, academic staff, and executive managers.  In his 13 years in the role, he managed the promotion and tenure process, reviewing more than 2,000 reappointment, promotion and tenure dossiers. In collaboration with the Office of Employee Relations, he was responsible for contract negotiations and administration with the MSU non-tenure track teaching faculty and graduate teaching assistants.  Professor Curry and his team worked closely with academic governance and the Council of Deans to revise and create policies to improve the quality, diversity and climate at MSU.  Before his appointment as associate provost, Curry served for eight years as director of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations (now Human Resources and Labor Relations). He joined the faculty of the school in 1976 rising to full professor and associate director before his appointment as director in 1999.

Gary Rhoades is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, on leave from January 2009 to serve as General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C.  Rhoades was Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education from 1997-2009, and has been a faculty member at the Center for the Study of Higher Education since August 1986.  Rhoades’ scholarship focuses on the restructuring of academic institutions and of professions in the academy, as well as on science and technology policy, and comparative higher education.  That scholarship is informing his work with the AAUP.  In addition to his books, Managed Professionals (1998, SUNY Press), and Academic Capitalism and the New Economy (with Sheila Slaughter, 2004, Johns Hopkins University Press), Rhoades is now working on a new volume, tentatively entitled, Managing to be Different: From Strategic Imitation to Strategic Imagination. He is currently a Board Member of the National Center and is Co-editor of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.

Pamela S. Silverblatt is Senior Counsel, Bond, Schoeneck & King. Pam is a labor relations attorney helping employers manage labor negotiations, collective bargaining and other workplace issues. Pam brings a distinguished career overseeing labor relations, human resource management, higher education administration, employee benefits and employment law in public sector and higher education settings. Before joining Bond, Pam served as Senior Vice Chancellor for Labor Relations for the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. At CUNY, Pam developed collective bargaining strategy and led the university’s labor negotiations for more than 30,000 employees with 14 unions, including faculty, professional staff, security, nurses and skilled trades. From 2018 – 2020  Pam served as CUNY’s Interim Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and General Counsel where she supervised a team of 15 attorneys responsible for all university-wide legal affairs and litigation management relating to faculty, staff and students, including matters related to discrimination, disability, free speech, governance, freedom of information, contractual issues, compliance, intellectual property and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Earlier in her career, Pam was appointed by two successive mayors to serve as the First Deputy Labor Commissioner for the City of New York. In this position she was the deputy chief negotiator for the City of New York, representing the mayor in all labor relations for more than 300,000 employees across more than 100 labor organizations. Prior to that, Pam was Senior Assistant Vice President for Operations and Human Resources at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the nation’s largest public healthcare system. While there she managed hiring and onboarding, workforce planning and development, training, compensation, equal employment opportunity and labor relations. Among her service activities, Pam is a member of the NYC Board of Collective Bargaining responsible for reviewing and determining allegations of violations of the collective bargaining law.