Jaz Brisack

Jaz Brisack is the organizing director of the Inside Organizer School, which they co-founded in 2018 to train non-union workers and “salts” to unionize their workplaces. They first started organizing in Mississippi, working on the UAW campaign at the Nissan factory in Canton, Miss, and volunteering as a Pinkhouse Defender at the state's last abortion clinic. After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Jaz got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United in Upstate New York and Vermont, they subsequently worked with organizing committees at companies ranging from Ben & Jerry's to Tesla.