Jennifer Gordon is Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School in New York City. Prior to joining the Fordham faculty, in 1992 Gordon founded the Workplace Project in New York, a nationally recognized grassroots workers center that organizes low-wage Latino immigrants to fight for just treatment on the job. After leaving the Workplace Project in 1998, she was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow at Yale Law School, where for two years she taught a seminar titled “Workers, the Law and the Changing Economy.” Gordon has also worked as a consultant to the AFL-CIO, the Campaign for Human Development of the Catholic Church, and the Ford Foundation, among others.

Gordon’s previous publications include “Immigrants Fight the Power,” the Nation (January 3, 2000), and "We Make the Road by Walking: Immigrant Workers and the Struggle for Social Change," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 407 (1995). A magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard/Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, Gordon was chosen in 1995 as one of National Law Journal 's forty leading lawyers under the age of 40 in the United States. In 1998, she was named “Outstanding Public Interest Advocate of the Year” by the National Association for Public Interest Law (now Equal Justice Works). She was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1999.

Ron Hayduk teaches political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. Hayduk has written about American politics in the subject areas of political participation, elections and voting, social movements, immigration, and race, including as co-editor and contributing author of Democracy’s Moment: Reforming the American Political System in the Twenty First Century, From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization, and Radical Perspectives on Race and Racism.

He has written several book chapters and articles, including “Race and Suburban Sprawl,” in Surviving Sprawl: Culture, Ecology and Politics, “From Anti-Globalization to Global Justice: A Twenty First Century Movement,” in Teamsters and Turtles?: U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the 21st Century, and “Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.” in New Political Science (December 2004). Hayduk is the author of two forthcoming books, Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Shaping Election Administration in New York (Northern Illinois University Press) and Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States (Routledge).

Formerly a social worker, Hayduk was the director of the New York City Voter Assistance Commission from 1993 to 1996 and was an election expert witness in several court cases, including NAACP vs. Harris following the 2000 election. He has consulted for several public policy organizations (Demos, The Brennan Center, The Century Foundation), and is co-founder of The Immigrant Voting Project. Hayduk has appeared on television and radio (including MSNBC, Good Day New York, Regional News Network, CUNY-TV, NPR, and WBAI) and has been quoted in national and local newspapers. Hayduk remains engaged in various political activities, particularly in New York.

Gouri Sadhwani is Executive Director of the New York Civic Participation Project (a project of La Fuente, a Tri-State Worker and Community Fund, Inc.), which works to promote and protect immigrant worker rights in New York City. The Project is a collaboration of labor and community groups including SEIU Local 32BJ, AFSCME DC 37, HERE Local 100, Make the Road by Walking, and the National Employment Law Project. She has over ten years of experience in human and labor rights. Her prior experience includes working with the National Labor Committee and with national unions to campaign for labor rights and greater corporate accountability. She has also worked with international organizations on peace and economic justice campaigns as executive director of the Hague Appeal for Peace. Ms. Sadhwani is a graduate of the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, where she earned a Masters in Public Administration. She is an immigrant from India.