The co-founder and co-director of the national restaurant workers'
organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) will
be speaking at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) on Thursday,
October 8, 2009. Saru Jayaraman's talk, "Collective Prosperity in the
Food Industry," is part of the college's Dooley Lecture Series and
takes place in the Ecolab Theater in the CIA Admissions Building at
2:30 p.m.
Ms. Jayaraman is an assistant professor of Public Law at Brooklyn College. In 1992, she founded Women and Youth Supporting Each Other, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing young women of color with the resources and support needed to become leaders in their communities. She has also served as attorney and organizer at the Workplace Project, a Latina/o immigrant worker organizing center. Ms. Jayaraman co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce, (ME Sharpe, 2005). She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was named one of New York magazine's "Influentials" of New York City.
After September 11, 2001, Ms. Jayaraman—together with surviving employees from Windows on the World—organized restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns and launch their own cooperatively owned restaurant. ROC-United recently initiated a national alliance of workers' organizations along the food chain, from farm workers and meat and poultry processing workers to food distribution and retail workers to restaurant employees.
The public is invited to attend the talk at the CIA campus, which is on Route 9 in Hyde Park. Attendance is limited to 100, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Dooley Lecture Series brings food industry leaders, experts on international relations, and other interesting luminaries to The Culinary Institute of America. The series is named for Carroll F. Dooley, the first director of the college's food preparation division in 1946. His daughter, Patricia Dooley Fortenbaugh, has been funding the series since its inception in 2002. Information about upcoming speakers in the series can be found at www.ciachef.edu/enthusiasts/dooley.asp.
Ms. Jayaraman is an assistant professor of Public Law at Brooklyn College. In 1992, she founded Women and Youth Supporting Each Other, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing young women of color with the resources and support needed to become leaders in their communities. She has also served as attorney and organizer at the Workplace Project, a Latina/o immigrant worker organizing center. Ms. Jayaraman co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce, (ME Sharpe, 2005). She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was named one of New York magazine's "Influentials" of New York City.
After September 11, 2001, Ms. Jayaraman—together with surviving employees from Windows on the World—organized restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns and launch their own cooperatively owned restaurant. ROC-United recently initiated a national alliance of workers' organizations along the food chain, from farm workers and meat and poultry processing workers to food distribution and retail workers to restaurant employees.
The public is invited to attend the talk at the CIA campus, which is on Route 9 in Hyde Park. Attendance is limited to 100, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Dooley Lecture Series brings food industry leaders, experts on international relations, and other interesting luminaries to The Culinary Institute of America. The series is named for Carroll F. Dooley, the first director of the college's food preparation division in 1946. His daughter, Patricia Dooley Fortenbaugh, has been funding the series since its inception in 2002. Information about upcoming speakers in the series can be found at www.ciachef.edu/enthusiasts/dooley.asp.
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