Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium
Interim Steering Committee
The committee is charged with developing an outreach strategy and schedule to bring other cities and states on-board the Consortium, refining the vision for the Consortium, including its structure and governance, and developing bylaws.
Meeting minutes
Members of the committee
Government members:
State of Maine represented by Chip Gavin, Director, Bureau of General Services, and Betty Lamoreau, Director, Division of Purchases
State of New York represented by Colleen Crawford Gardner, Executive Assistant for Labor Affairs
State of Pennsylvania represented by Roxana Dietz, Director, Commodity Management, Services Department of General Services
City of Los Angeles represented by Farshid Yazdi, Department of General Services
City of San Francisco represented by Carmen Herrera, Contract Compliance Officer of Labor Standards Enforcement, and Galen Leung, Manager of Central Buying Division
Non-government members are:
Bama Athreya, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum
Bjorn Claeson, Executive Director, SweatFree Communities
Eric Dirnbach, Researcher, Workers United
Julie Su, Esq, Litigation Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
