Media Contacts

The UCLA Labor Center and Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) staff are available to comment on a variety of contemporary issues related to labor and employment.

For media inquiries, please contact Stefanie Ritoper at sritoper@ucla.edu or (213) 375-4841.

IRLE Staff Title Areas of Expertise
Contact

Victor Narro
Victor Narro
 Project Director
Labor Center

Bio
  • Low-wage immigrant workers
  • Immigration policy
  • Worker centers
(213) 480-4155 x209
vnarro@irle.ucla.edu
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
 Project Director
Labor Center

Bio
  • Immigration
  • Latinos in the US
  • US-Mexico relations
  • Race relations
  • Latin American culture & politics
  • Indigenous peoples in the Americas
 (310) 206-3910
grsalgado@irle.ucla.edu

Janna Shadduck-Hernández
 Project Director
Labor Center

Bio
  • Labor and workplace education
  • Community-based education and training; popular education
  • Community service-learning
  • Gender issues
  • Immigration and undocumented migration
  • Undocumented students
  • Low-wage working families and K-12 education in Los Angeles
  • Qualitative research methods and labor and workplace studies field research
  • Arts activism: labor, immigration, sexuality and LGBTQ issues
  • Latino community issues: education, higher education, community development
 (213) 480-4155 x211 jshernandez@irle.ucla.edu

Lola Smallwood Cuevas
 Project Director
Labor Center

Director
LA Black Worker Center

Bio
  • African American workers in Los Angeles
  • Strategic labor and community alliances
(213) 480-4155 x210 lscuevas@irle.ucla.edu

Chris Tilly
 Director
IRLE

Bio
  • Low-wage work
  • Wage levels
  • Retail sector
  • Mexico and Latin America
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Racial discrimination
  • General workforce trends
(310) 267-4738
ctilly@irle.ucla.edu

Kent Wong
Kent Wong
Director
Labor Center

Bio
  • Immigrant workers
  • Undocumented students
  • Asian American workers
  • Contemporary union issues
 (213) 480-4155 x204
kentwong@ucla.edu