John Russo is a visiting scholar at Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. He is professor emeritus at Youngstown State University where he served as the Coordinator of the Labor Studies Program in the Warren P. Williamson College of Business Administration and co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies. He has written widely on labor, class, and community issues. At YSU, John was one of just two professors ever to have won distinguished professor awards in all four categories: scholarship, teaching, university service, and community service. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative and was a recipient of the Working-Class Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award.