Honoring MLK: CLEAR Explores the Past and Future of Labor Movements in the US
02.10.2025 — To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) hosted a panel discussion on January 22, 2025, about Dr. King’s connection to the labor movement, and about the current challenges facing labor movements in the United States.
The panel included Ingrid Nava ’03, associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); Ryan Quinn ’19, associate attorney at Segal Roitman and adjunct professor at Northeastern Law; Professor Karl Klare; and Eli Hovland ’26, a member of the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University (GENU-UAW) bargaining committee.
Joined by almost 100 faculty, staff and students in 220 Dockser Hall and online, clips from the documentary By the River I Stand, about Dr. King’s involvement in the organizing campaign for sanitation workers before his death, were viewed. The screening was followed by a discussion about stakeholders’ competing interests and the legal realities incumbent in the organizing process. View the full recording of the event here:
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