RoseAnn DeMoro
RoseAnn DeMoro is the Executive Director of National Nurses United and of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. DeMoro also serves as National Vice President and Executive Boardmember of the AFL-CIO.[1]
Personal life and education
DeMoro was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1949. She grew up in a working-class neighborhood and married her "high school sweetheart", Don DeMoro, in 1978. They have two children. She attended Southern Illinois University, earning a degree in women's studies. After obtaining her degree, the family moved to Santa Barbara, California where she began to work on a PhD in sociology. While working on her PhD she took time off to work as an organizer for the American Federation of Teachers and the University of California clerical workers. After giving up her studies she worked for the Teamsters as the first female organizer for the Western Conference of Teamsters. DeMoro says that she found the degree of sexism she experienced while working for the Teamsters "intolerable" and in 1986 she took a collective bargaining position at the California Nurses Association. She states, "When I came to work for the nurses, I felt like I could finally breathe. There is a real women’s culture of collaboration and self-organization."[2][3]
Career
DeMoro is the Executive Director of National Nurses United, the largest professional and labor organization of registered nurses in the United States. De Moro is also the Executive Director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.
DeMoro has profiled in The New York Times,[4] Wall Street Journal,[5] Los Angeles Times,[6] San Francisco Chronicle,[7] Business Week, and the Chicago Tribune,[8] DeMoro has also appeared on a number of national and California news programs, including Bill Moyers Journal,[9] CBS' 60 Minutes,[10] PBS' Now,[11] and the Lehrer News Hour.[12]
Honors and awards
DeMoro has been named "America's Best & Brightest"[13] by Esquire magazine, dubbed "The Most Influential Woman You've Never Heard Of" by More magazine,[14] honored as among "America's Most Influential Women" by MSN,[15] and one of only eight people to be cited among the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" for 14 consecutive years by Modern Healthcare magazine.[16]
References
- ↑ "Executive Council Members". AFL-CIO.
- ↑ "Rose Ann DeMoro: Labor Leader & Political Player". MORE Magazine.
- ↑ Kathleen Sharp (6 May 2007). "The Rabble-rouser / Will California nurses' union head Rose Ann DeMoro's guerrilla theater tactics continue to win friends and help nationalize health care, or will her 'queen-size' ambitions get in the way?". SFGate.
- ↑ "Redefining the Union Boss". The New York Times. 20 November 2011.
- ↑ Jim Carlton (11 November 2010). "California Nurses' Union Flexes Political Muscle — WSJ". WSJ.
- ↑ "Nurses Union Leader Is a Tonic for Governor's Foes". latimes.
- ↑ Kathleen Sharp (6 May 2007). "The Rabble-rouser / Will California nurses' union head Rose Ann DeMoro's guerrilla theater tactics continue to win friends and help nationalize health care, or will her 'queen-size' ambitions get in the way?". SFGate.
- ↑ "Militancy is mark of California leader". tribunedigital-chicagotribune.
- ↑ "Rose Ann DeMoro on the Fight for Health Care Reform — BillMoyers.com". BillMoyers.com.
- ↑ ""60 Minutes" The New Boss/The Harlem Children's Zone/Not Ready to Make Nice (TV Episode 2006)". IMDb. 14 May 2006.
- ↑ "Rose Ann DeMoro Talks with PBS NOW on Health & Politics — VideoNeed". videoneed.com.
- ↑ "Balancing Act". PBS NewsHour.
- ↑ California Nurses Association (17 November 2006). "Esquire Names CNA/NNOC Leader Rose Ann DeMoro Among 'Best and Brightest in America'". prnewswire.com.
- ↑ "Rose Ann DeMoro: Labor Leader & Political Player". MORE Magazine.
- ↑ California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (11 January 2007). "CNA/NNOC Leader Rose Ann DeMoro Named to 'Ten Influential Women of 2006'". prnewswire.com.
- ↑ "Modern Healthcare". modernhealthcare.com.