Puya Gerami is director of Recovery For All, a statewide coalition uniting more than 60 labor, community, and faith organizations around a long-term mission to eliminate Connecticut's extreme racial, economic, and gender inequities. He is also a doctoral candidate in history who researches how public sector workers and their unions responded to the rise of privatization in the late twentieth century. Previously he worked as an organizer and education director at SEIU 1199 New England.