Sybil Sanchez named new JLC Executive Director
The Jewish Labor Committee is pleased to announce that Sybil Sanchez has been named the organization's Executive Director. Ms. Sanchez succeeded the organization's Acting Director, Rosalind Spigel.
With a background in Jewish communal organizing, strategic advocacy, and international work, Sanchez was selected “in order to build on our organization's unique contribution to workers' rights and Jewish concerns and to help us move forward during this unique moment in American history,” said JLC President Stuart Appelbaum. “She will lead us through changing times as new Federal legislation, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, is advanced within the new Congress and Administration.”
“JLC is known for our advocacy in defense of workers’ rights locally, nationally and internationally and for bringing Jews and labor together in diverse ways, from organizing labor delegations to Israel, coordinating anti-boycott campaigns to convening labor seders to raise awareness of our shared interests,” Appelbaum said. “Ms. Sanchez will not only strengthen the Jewish - labor connection but also expand our capacity to utilize new ways of reaching out.”
“It is an honor to join the Jewish Labor Committee,” Sanchez added. “As we look to promote workers’ rights, so too do we seek to strengthen our connections with Israel and internationally around issues central to the Jewish community and the trade union movement. Many within the Jewish community care deeply about the state of working men and women and I look forward to working with them in my new capacity.”
Ms. Sanchez, the immediate past director of United Nations affairs of B'nai B'rith International and a graduate of the UJA-Federation of New York’s Muehlstein Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership, brings to the position a decade of human rights and Jewish communal experience. She holds a masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University and has previously worked for the United Nations and overseas in the Balkans. She speaks Hebrew, French, and Serbo-Croatian.