Staff

Anthony Prince, Executive Director

I have had a long career in labor and law. At age 17, I served as the Chief Shop Steward for the Teamsters Local 986, in Vernon, California -- the youngest elected chief steward in Teamsters history -- and as the Safety Committee Chair for Steelworkers Local 65 at U.S. Steel Corp. South (Chicago) Works where I established the local's first-ever Unemployed Members Committee. I served as Director of Collective Bargaining for SEIU-Healthcare Wisconsin; Legal Counsel to the Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago; as a Business Agent for the Engineers and Scientists of California, Local 20; and as a National Field Representative/Assistant Counsel for National Treasury Employees Union in Oakland and Fresno, among other union roles.

In addition to my work in labor, I have engaged in extensive advocacy work around housing and homelessness. I provided legal aid through the Housing Rights Clinic of the New College of California School of Law, co-founded the “Chicago Anti-Poverty Law Collective,” and – as a staff attorney for the San Francisco Bar Association’s Eviction Defense for Homeless Advocacy Project/Justice and Diversity Center -- I provided eviction defense for low-income tenants. In 2016, I became the lead organizer and general counsel for the National Union of the Homeless and the California Homeless Union Statewide Organizing Council.

I have tremendous respect for the teaching profession through my family’s long-standing roots in education. My father, a World War II veteran, went to LACC on the GI Bill and later taught classes on counseling returning soldiers. My mother was a decades-long special education instructor and United Teachers of Los Angeles activist. And my second-oldest daughter teaches social work at Long Beach State and works as a consultant to an L.A. Area school district.

My family is engaged in education, activism and service. My son is a fire fighter with the U.S. Forest Service, my oldest daughter works at Starbucks in Dallas, Texas where last month she helped lead a successful union drive, and my youngest is currently majoring in astrophysics at U.C. Santa Cruz. My wife advises physicians as a medical science liaison.

I have a JD from the New College of California School of Law, admitted to the Bar in 1999.

Email Contact: executivedirector6157@gmail.co