Karen Nussbaum
Karen Nussbaum (born April 25, 1950) is an American
labor leader and founding director of
Working America. Nussbaum was born in
Chicago where her mother, Annette Brenner Nussbaum, was a publicist, and her father, Myron
"Mike" Nussbaum, was an exterminator, actor, and director. Her parents were active in the
anti-Vietnam movement and worked to bring speakers to their community of
Highland Park in Chicago including
Staughton Lynd. During this time, the family was also receiving hate mail from the local
John Birch Society. She enrolled in the
University of Chicago in 1968 but dropped out to move to
Boston and work in the
anti-Vietnam movement. In 1975, she earned a B.A. from
Goddard College. While in Boston, she began working as a clerical worker at
Harvard where she was exposed to inequalities in the workplace for female office workers.
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