2020
DIANA
ROBINSON
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
SSEU LOCAL 371
Diana Robinson has been serving as the Union Semester Program Coordinator at the CUNY
School of Labor and Urban Studies. Previously, she was an Organizer and Food Policy Coordinator
at the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500 on Long Island, New
York.
After that, Robinson held the position of Leadership Development Coordinator at Food Chain
Workers Alliance, a coalition of worker-based organizations whose members plant, harvest,
process, pack, transport, prepare, serve, and sell food, organizing to improve wages and
working conditions for all workers along the food chain.
Robinson has been a proud member of the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents
faculty and staff at CUNY. In addition, she has been a labor educator teaching courses
at SUNY Empire State College on Race, Class, Gender and Diversity in the Workplace. She
is the daughter of immigrants from the Caribbean. Robinson graduated from Queens College
with a BA in Political Science and completed a Masters in Labor Studies from CUNY School
of Labor and Urban Studies.
SALUTE TO LABOR