Labor On The Move: Ari Schwartz New DC JWJ Solidarity Organizer

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Ari Schwartz has been hired as the new Solidarity Organizer at DC Jobs with Justice. Schwartz has been JwJ’s Workers’ Rights Education Coordinator and an AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps fellow since September 2012 and has previously worked with the DC Wage Theft Coalition, LiUNAs’ Southeast Laborers’ District Council in Nashville TN and as a student organizer for Vanderbilt Students of Nonviolence. He also interned at Fenton Communications andThe Baltimore Sun. Reach him at ari@dcjwj.org Former Solidarity Organizer Lillian Walker Shelton, who  has moved on to Community Connections where she’ll be a Women's Trauma Treatment Team Specialist, said that “Working at DC JwJ has been one of the best experiences of my life. I have had so many opportunities to give back to my community and make a difference.” She can be reached at lwshelton1@aol.com. photo: Schwartz (center) at the April 10, 2013 immigration rights march; photo by Emily Kvalheim