State and Local Government Sweatfree Consortium Interim Steering Committee
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 Curtis Topper, Deputy Secretary for Procurement
City of Los Angeles represented by Diego Calvera and Curtis Watts, Department of General Services
City of San Francisco represented by Wade Crowfoot, Director of Government Affairs, Office of Mayor Gavin Newsom, and Carmen Herrera, Contract Compliance Officer of Labor Standards Enforcement
Los Angeles Unified School District represented by Marc Monforte, Acting Deputy Branch Director of Procurement
Bama Athreya, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum
Mark Barenberg, Professor of Law, Columbia University
Rini Chakraborty, Executive Director, Sweatshop Watch
Bjorn Claeson, Executive Director, SweatFree Communities
Eric Dirnbach, Deputy Director, Strategic Affairs, and Apparel Industry Coordinator, UNITE HERE
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.




