Todd Vachon

Todd E. Vachon, PhD is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University and serves as the Director of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN)—the university’s labor education program. Todd has written extensively about labor and climate justice, including his recent books Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice and Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Just and Sustainable Future. Beyond climate scholarship, Todd serves as President of the New Brunswick chapter of the faculty union, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, where he is also co-chair of the union’s climate justice committee. Todd also serves as Vice President for Higher Education of AFT New Jersey and is a founding steering committee member of the recently formed Environmental and Climate Justice Caucus within the American Federation of Teachers nationally.