Elizabeth Pellerito

Elizabeth Pellerito is the Director of the Labor Education Program at UMass Lowell. She organized university employees including faculty, staff, graduate students, researchers, postdocs, and librarians in Oregon and Michigan before joining the Labor Education Program in 2018. She is on the boards of the Bread & Roses Heritage Festival and the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts. Elizabeth is experienced in training union members and leaders on a wide variety of topics. She is particularly interested in how unions can combat sexual assault, sexual harassment and intimate partner violence.