Jaz Brisack

Co-Founder and Organizing Director, Inside Organizer School

Sausalito, California

Jaz Brisack is the co-founder and organizing director at Inside Organizer School, a nonprofit that creates youth networks to reinvigorate the labor movement and trains non-union workers to organize their workplaces. Jaz empowers workers nationally by providing them with the tools to form unions, overcome employer opposition, and negotiate contracts that address their needs as employees. As a founding member of Starbucks Workers United, they helped organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States, igniting a national movement resulting in the unionization of over 500 Starbucks locations. Jaz began organizing in Mississippi with the United Auto Workers’ campaign at Nissan and has since worked with union campaigns at companies like Ben & Jerry’s, Amazon, and Tesla. Jaz published their book, Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World, and aspires to rebuild union density in the U.S. for a stronger economy and democracy.