Jaz Brisack

Jaz Brisack is a seasoned union organizer and activist. They started their career with the United Autoworkers campaign at the Nissan factory in Canton, MS. Jaz also volunteered as a Pinkhouse Defender at the state’s last abortion clinic. After spending a year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, they got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, NY, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping to organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United in upstate New York and Vermont, Jaz worked with organizing committees that successfully formed a workers’ union at a Ben & Jerry’s factory. Jaz is a prominent figure in the labor movement and has been featured in various media outlets.