Linda Nguyen
Linda Nguyen is the Executive Director of El Centro, an organization dedicated to raising standards in the meat-packing and food processing industry. Our mission is to create a space for workers and their families to be in movement together, provide leadership development, and empower workers to transform their workplaces and communities.
Ms. Nguyen brings nearly 15 years of experience building teams that advance economic, social, racial and environmental justice through organizing, policy advocacy, coalition building, and strategic communications. In her previous role as Chief of Staff at UFCW 770, Ms. Nguyen drove worker-led campaigns and communications initiatives that resulted in industry-setting workplace health and safety measures for essential workers during the global pandemic, and historic contract gains for grocery workers that reversed decades of wage stagnation.
Ms. Nguyen previously co-founded Jobs to Move America and was the driving force in developing the organization's national campaigns to reshore U.S. manufacturing jobs in the transportation industry. Her work led to the passing of good jobs policies on $6 billion of public projects and the creation of thousands of new unionized manufacturing jobs, with pipelines for low-income and communities of color.
She is an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and holds a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Irvine.
Ms. Nguyen brings nearly 15 years of experience building teams that advance economic, social, racial and environmental justice through organizing, policy advocacy, coalition building, and strategic communications. In her previous role as Chief of Staff at UFCW 770, Ms. Nguyen drove worker-led campaigns and communications initiatives that resulted in industry-setting workplace health and safety measures for essential workers during the global pandemic, and historic contract gains for grocery workers that reversed decades of wage stagnation.
Ms. Nguyen previously co-founded Jobs to Move America and was the driving force in developing the organization's national campaigns to reshore U.S. manufacturing jobs in the transportation industry. Her work led to the passing of good jobs policies on $6 billion of public projects and the creation of thousands of new unionized manufacturing jobs, with pipelines for low-income and communities of color.
She is an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and holds a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Irvine.
