AMY SMOUCHA

Amy Smoucha (she/her/they) has spent 30 years in nonprofit organizations, beginning as a community organizer in Missouri and eventually serving as managing director of the national office of Jobs With Justice.  As a staff member of Missouri Jobs With Justice, Smoucha was on the staff team that negotiated their first collective bargaining agreement. At the national office, Amy led and managed labor management relations and contract negotiations, as well as supporting colleagues and affiliates whose staff were unionizing.  Smoucha currently has a consulting and coaching practice focused on nonprofit, social justice leaders and managers seeking to live out their organizational values through the workplaces they create.  Smoucha is building out a body of work and resources to support leaders in applying values-based approaches to staff unionization and collective bargaining.