Chris Brooks is a former community and labor organizer from Tennessee. He is a graduate of the Union Leadership and Activism program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and works for Labor Notes in New York City. Rebecca Kolins Givan is an associate professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers. She is the author of The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom (Cornell University Press, 2016).