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Erica Smiley is the executive director of Jobs With Justice (JWJ). A long-time organizer and movement
leader, Smiley has been spearheading strategic organizing and policy interventions for Jobs With Justice for
nearly 15 years. Prior to taking up her current position with the organization, Smiley served as organizing
director for Jobs With Justice developing campaigns that resulted in transformative changes to how
working people organize and are civically engaged at their workplaces and in their communities. Before
joining Jobs With Justice, Smiley organized with community groups and unions such as the Tenants and
Workers Support Committee (now Tenants and Workers United) in Virginia and SEIU Local 500 in Baltimore.
Her career in social and economic justice began in the reproductive justice field, serving as national field
director for Choice USA (now United for Reproductive and Gender Equity—URGE) where she received the
Young Women of Achievement Award in 2004.
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