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2024 Margaret Hallock Lecture featuring Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014. Nelson represents 55,000 workers at 20 airlines. The New York Times called her "America's most powerful flight attendant" for her role in helping to end the 35-day government shutdown and InStyle Magazine placed her on their Top 50 Badass Women list. The New Yorker profiled AFA and Nelson's career in May 2022. 

Nelson has served as a leading voice on issues facing women in the workplace and across the country, encouraging women everywhere to "Join Unions, Run Unions." She serves as a member of the AFL-CIO executive council, the Communication Workers of America executive board, the Transportation Trades Department executive board, the Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy, and as vice chair of the International Transport Workers Federation Civil Aviation steering committee. She received the Jones-Blizzard Award from the United Mine Workers of America, the AFL-CIO MLK Drum Major for Justice Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from Jobs with Justice, the National Consumers League Trumpeter Award, Women’s March Spotlight Award, and Massachusetts Teachers Association Friend of Labor Award. Nelson grew up in Corvallis and earned a bachelor's degree from Principia College with majors in English and Education.

Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.