Advisory Board and Steering Committee
National Advisory Board
Charles Brave — President, South Carolina AFL-CIO
Bonnie Castillo — Executive Director, National Nurses United
David Van Deusen — President, VT AFL-CIO
Mark Dimondstein — President, American Postal Workers Union
Richard Hooker — Sec.-Treas., Teamsters Local 623
Sara Nelson — President, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
David Newby — President Emeritus, Wisconsin AFL-CIO
Cynthia Phinney – President Maine AFL-CIO
Carl Rosen — President, United Electrical Workers (UE)
Sal Rosselli— President, National Union of Healthcare Workers
Steven A. Tolman — President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO
Jos Williams — President Emeritus, District of Columbia Metropolitan CLC
Nancy Wohlforth — OPEIU
national coordinator
Rose Roach is the National Coordinator for the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and serves as Chair of Healthcare for All Minnesota.
Rose recently retired as the Executive Director of the MN Nurses Association, MNA, after 34 years in the labor movement having represented public school employees in both MN, her home state and CA before being hired at MNA in 2014.
For two decades, Rose has been involved in the healthcare justice movement, as a trainer and national speaker while working with elected officials to craft legislation that moves us to a patient/provider-centered healthcare system.
Rose was recognized by the MN Physician’s Magazine as one of their quadrennials, top 100 leaders in healthcare in 2016 and 2020. Rose has served on former MN Governor Mark Dayton’s Healthcare Financing Task Force as well as MN’s Attorney General Keith Ellison’s Lowering Pharmaceutical Costs Task Force. Recently, she received the Women’s Trailblazer Award from Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and was the 2019 recipient of the MN Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s Paul Wellstone Lifetime Commitment to Organized Labor Award.
steering committee
Ada Briceño — UNITEHERE Local 11
Donna Cartwright — Pride @ Work, AFL-CIO
Al Cholger — USW (Ret.)
Steve DeMatteo — APWU
Mark Dudzic — Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Sandy Eaton — Massachusetts Nurses Association
Jon Flanders — Troy Area Labor Council
Don Giljum — IUOE Local 148
Rebecca Givan — Rutgers AAUP/AFT
Dustin Guastella — IBT Local 623
Cherrene Horazuk — AFSCME Local 3800
Katherine Isaac — Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute
David Johnson — Champaign IL CLC
Geri Katz — Minnesota Nurses Association
Martha Kuhl — NNU
Traven Leyshon — Green Mountain Labor Council
Michael Lighty — NUHW
Martha Livingston — UUP/AFT2190
Kevin Mapp — USW
James McGee — Transit Employees H & W Fund, ATU
Roy Morrison — BMWED/IBT
Lew Moye — St. Louis CBTU
Katie Murphy — Massachusetts Nurses Association
David Newby — Wisconsin AFL-CIO
Elizabeth O’Connor — Maine AFL-CIO
Sonny Pezzella — Pennsylvania Federation BMWED/IBT
Rose Roach — Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Jean Ross — NNU
Reese Saulter III — BMWED/IBT
Joel Shufro — NY Health Campaign Labor Outreach Group
Mike Sullivan — Oregon Labor for Single Payer
John Thompson — UE
Marva Wade — New York State Nurses Association
John Walsh — IBEW
Nancy Wohlforth — OPEIU