Jane McAlevey

Who they were

Personal life In 2009, McAlevey was diagnosed with early-stage ovarian cancer and underwent a year of intensive treatment. [ 1 ] On April 14, 2024, McAlevey announced on her website that she had entered home hospice care the week before, a result of a multiple myeloma cancer diagnosed in the fall of 2021. [ 2 ] On April 23, during an interview on Democracy Now! discussing the United Auto Workers unionization win at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee,

Jane F. McAlevey was an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. She was a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a columnist at The Nation.

Early life

Early life Born in Manhattan , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] McAlevey was the youngest of nine children. [ 3 ] Her father, John McAlevey, a World War II fighter pilot , lawyer, and progressive politician, was mayor of Sloatsburg, New York , then Supervisor of Ramapo , and member of the Rockland County Board of Supervisors. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As a baby, her parents took her to civil rights and anti-Vietnam War marches. When she was 5,

Education In 1984, while attending the State University of New York at Buffalo , McAlevey was elected student body president . She went on to be elected president of the Student Association of the State University of New York (SASU), the 200,000-member statewide student union in New York's public university system. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As president, she also assumed the sole student representative position as a voting member of the board of trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY). [ 3 ]

Path and career

Career After leaving university, McAlevey traveled through Central America , spending time in Nicaragua working to support the revolution led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front . [ 1 ] She then moved to California to work out of David Brower 's Earth Island Institute on a project aimed at educating the environmental movement in the United States about the ecological consequences of US military and economic policy in Central America . She served as co-director of EPOCA,

Why this date

Jane McAlevey appears on our July 7 calendar for 2024 as a death entry.