Rose ann demoro wikipedia

Former executive director of National Nurses United

RoseAnn DeMoro is the former executive director of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and a former national vice president and executive board member of the AFL–CIO.^[1][2]

Personal life and education

DeMoro was born in St.

Louis, Missouri in and grew up in a working-class neighborhood. She earned a degree in women's studies from Southern Illinois University. She married in and after college, she and her husband moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she began to work on a PhD in sociology.

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During that time, she worked as an organizer for the American Federation of Teachers and the University of California clerical workers. She gave up her studies to work for the Teamsters as the first female organizer for the Western Conference of Teamsters.

DeMoro later described the sexism she experienced at the Teamsters as "intolerable