Sara Horowitz was born on January 13,1963 and is a founder of the Freelancers Union and a proponent of mutualism.
14 Facts About Sara Horowitz
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Sara Horowitz has been working for unions since age 18, when she held a summer internship at the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
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Sara Horowitz has worked for the UAW, CSEA, and SEIU, and she currently serves on the board of the Albert Shanker Institute.
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Sara Horowitz was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999 and has served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, serving as Chair from 201x-201x.
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Sara Horowitz is Jewish and grew up in Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, New York in a labor family.
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Sara Horowitz's father was a union lawyer and her mother a lifelong member of the United Federation of Teachers.
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Sara Horowitz attended Brooklyn Friends School, a Quaker school in Brooklyn.
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Sara Horowitz later attended the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received her MPA in 1995.
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Sara Horowitz has built her life's work on the philosophy that mutualist organizing will be the foundation of the next social safety net.
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Sara Horowitz began her career in 1984 when she worked with 1199 SEIU to organize nursing home workers.
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Sara Horowitz is married to Peter DeChiara, a partner in a union side labor law firm.
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Sara Horowitz's grandmother lived in ILGWU housing on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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In recognition of her efforts to create a self-sustaining organization of flexible workers, Sara Horowitz was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1999.
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Sara Horowitz is on the board of Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation, Emily K Rafferty Designated Chair and Kathryn S Wylde Redesignated Deputy Chair, and the recipient of the Eugene V Debs Award for her contribution in building the labor movement for gig workers.