Shaun Richman spent a decade and a half as a union organizer and representative. He was a Deputy Director of Organizing for the American Federation of Teachers, where he ran the union’s national charter school organizing division. As a writer, he has focused on union strategy and structure and proposals for labor law reform. He has been published in The American Prospect, In These Times, Jacobin, The New York Daily News, the New York Times, the Staten Island Advance, the Washington Post and Vox. He is an alumnus of Queens College, CUNY; the University of Massachusetts-Amherst; SUNY Empire State; and he earned a PhD in American Studies from the University of East Anglia.