Brittany Anderson named Executive Director of Pride At Work
Pride At Work is thrilled to announce Brittany Anderson (she/her) as Executive Director. Since August 2024, Brittany has served as Interim Executive Director, helming the revitalization of the membership-based organization during a time of national crisis, leading the way in building LGBTQIA+ worker power in the U.S. Brittany has been a dedicated Pride At Work member for over a decade, and was elected as national Co-President in 2022. Previously she was also elected to the organization’s National Executive Board in 2018 and as President of the NYC/Long Island Chapter in 2015.
As ED, Brittany will continue to spearhead the retooling of the infrastructure and operations of Pride At Work to catapult the organization into the organizing model that is true to our mission and roots. This includes seizing the momentum of workers rising up across the country, supporting and lifting up our chapters, and developing leaders throughout the LGBTQIA+ working class.
At a time when the billionaire MAGA regime continues to escalate its attacks on bodily autonomy, LGBTQIA+ existence, democracy, and unions, Pride at Work has remained a vital voice of resistance. We have been outspoken in combatting the MAGA war on trans and queer people and attacks on unions and all workers—connecting the dots between authoritarianism and the coordinated assault on trans, non-binary, and intersex people and immigrants. We’ve made it clear that these fights are one and the same, and that labor and the LGBTQIA+ movement have a critical role to play in stopping this agenda. Across race, place, and genders, we all deserve to have the freedom to shine bright as our authentic selves, and to work and live with safety, respect, and dignity.
Brittany joined the labor movement in 2011 as part of Occupy Wall Street, where union organizers took her under their wing. As a retail worker in New York City, she went on to work for the RWDSU/UFCW Local 338 and the RWDSU International Union in multiple roles, including new organizing, electoral and legislative campaigns, creating and facilitating trainings, and representing workers fighting for justice and fair contracts on the job.
She moved back to her home state of Minnesota in 2017 to become Field Director of the Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council. Brittany worked as the 2020 Statewide Canvass Director for Faith in Minnesota/ISAIAH, and IAM District Lodge 77, working on organizing campaigns across the Midwest. Brittany is a proud union queer and now lives in Washington, DC.
ABOUT PRIDE AT WORK
Pride At Work is the organizing hub and official AFL-CIO constituency group for LGBTQIA+ union members and workers.
