SAM BALTIMORECOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Sam joined JUFJ Campaign Fund for the 2018 primary election cycle. As our Communications Director and the person who supervises our data team, he is the one you can blame for emails with the wrong name on them, mailings you don’t remember signing up for (I promise I will fix it if you tell me!), and text messages that are not from a robot — those are real people sending them to you. He is also someone you can approach if you need help editing your op-ed or testimony, or if you just have to have one of those stylish JUFJ Campaign Fund shirts. If you can’t find what you’re looking for on the JUFJ Campaign Fund website, or if something on the website seems wrong, please let him know!

In addition to his communications work, Sam previously served on the organizing committee, the first two bargaining committees, and the Labor Management Committee on behalf of the JUFJ Campaign Fund staff union. He is a proud brother, son, grandson, and great grandson of union organizers with UAW, NYSUT, NABET, IATSE, and more.

Before working here, Sam was a music professor for ten years and a volunteer organizer at the Los Angeles LGBT Center for five. He has canvassed voters and trained volunteers from California to Maine, working on same-sex marriage, trans-inclusive non-discrimination ordinances, and LGBT inclusion in school curricula. He has a PhD in musicology, which is exactly as useful as it sounds. He sings with the Thomas Circle Singers; plays the cello; and has written articles about musicals, gender, and sexuality for a lot of publications that nobody reads. Despite his last name, he lives in Washington, DC with his husband and their three children (two human, one dog).

Sam uses he/him/his pronouns.

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