Mary Beth Maxwell

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Mary Beth Maxwell is the founding Executive Director of American Rights at Work, a national advocacy organization which promotes workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain. In its brief history, she has led the organization in exposing unionbusting in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, monitoring decisions of the National Labor Relations Board, and conducted research into the obstacles to worker organization. Maxwell is the author of the organization’s inaugural report, Some of Them Are Brave: The Unfulfilled Promise of American Labor Law.

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Maxwell previously served as National Field Director for Jobs with Justice, where she helped build a grassroots network of 43 local coalitions and organizing committees supporting workers’ rights across the country.

Prior to Jobs with Justice, she was Deputy Field Director for NARAL Pro-Choice America, directing the pro-choice organization’s electoral, legislative, media and fundraising training programs for local affiliates. She also served as Field Director for the United States Student Association where she designed programs to organize, train and mobilize students to advocate for higher education.

She currently sits on the Board of Directors of American Families United.