The Peggy Browning Fund Summer Newsletter 2021

2021 Leadership Circle Pacesetter United Steelworkers Leader AFL-CIO Champion AFSCME American Income Life Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters Joseph Lurie Service Employees Int’l Union Benefactor Bank of Labor Bush Gottlieb, a Law Corporation Gilbert & Sackman Int’l Assoc. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Int’l Brotherhood of Boilermakers New York State United Teachers Pitta LLP Vincent Pitta Segal / Segal Marco Advisors Patrick J. Szymanski United Auto Workers Defender Amalgamated Transit Union American Federation of Teachers Richard J. Brean Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP Communications Workers of America IBEW local 134 Int’l Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Sheet Metal Workers Int’l Association Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 19 Sherman Dunn, PC Union Plus United Food & Commercial Workers USW Local 7-1 Patron AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance Anonymous Michael L. Artz Lucas Aubrey Creighton, Johnsen & Giroux CWA District 4 Galfand Berger, LLP David Jury Danielle Leonard Levy Ratner, PC LiUNA Local 4 LiUNA Local 300 Mehri & Skalet, PLLC National Nurses United Ann Fromm and Bill Payne Pond Lehocky Glenn Rothner Rosanne & Samuel Spear United Mine Workers Winebrake & Santillo, LLC 8 Online Support for Summer Fellows Connecting with and Learning from Alumni With most of our fellowships remaining virtual or moving to a hybrid work schedule, we wanted to provide unique opportunities for our 2021 summer fellows to learn more about the labor movement, potential career paths, and current issues affecting workers. We started off with a well-attended ‘How to Get the Most From Your Summer Fellowship’ webinar, featuring PBF alumni discussing their career paths, tips on legal research, communication advice and virtual working. Throughout the summer, 3 more webinars were held on topics including immigration, labor lobby- ing, and the NLRB. Fellows have also been invited to attend the AFL-CIO’s Union Lawyers Alliance Brown Bag Series and many other educational and social events happening throughout the spring and summer. PBF alumni Jessica Rutter and Amanda Jaret organized a set of virtual social meetups for summer fellows and alumni. These events are designed to be focused on casual conversation and networking to make up for some of the peer interaction they may have been missing. Fellows were invited to a virtual Happy Hour to discuss their fellowships and learn from alumni experiences. Next are three virtual Movie Nights where alumni and fellows can meet to watch & discuss labor- related documentaries. Maria DiGeorge, alumna speaker at our Philadelphia Awards Program, PBF ’19 & ’20 at USW and the International Labor Rights Forum New York alumna speaker Sommer Omar, PBF’20 & 21 at the New York Hotel Trades Council and NYSUT