Īfter she was awarded a MacArthur “genius” award for her organizing efforts at Working Today, Horowitz founded the Freelancers Union. Seeking to address this issue, in 1993 Horowitz founded Working Today, an organization that advocates on behalf of freelancer workers and provides its freelancer members with a range of benefits, including legal services, retirement plans, and insurance. An early career misclassification as an independent contractor, rather than a full-time employee, led her to realize the effects of the benefits gap that many freelance workers face in today’s labor economy. She began her career in 1984 when she worked with 1199 SEIU to organize nursing home workers. Horowitz has built her life’s work on the philosophy that mutualist organizing will be the foundation of the next social safety net. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received her MPA in 1995. She graduated cum laude from the University at Buffalo Law School. degree in 1984 and was awarded its labor prize. Horowitz graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations with a B.A. She attended Brooklyn Friends School, a Quaker school in Brooklyn. Her father was a union lawyer and her mother a lifelong member of the United Federation of Teachers. Horowitz is Jewish and grew up in Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, New York in a labor family. In addition, she served on the board of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and currently sits on the Board of Directors of Ashoka.
She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999 and has served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, serving as Chair from 201x-201x. In her work, Horowitz advocates for the role of mutualist organizations, including unions, cooperatives, mutual aid groups, and faith-based groups, as the foundation for the next labor economy and social safety net in the United States.Įarlier in her career, Horowitz worked as a union organizer with 1199, SEIU, a public defender with the Legal Aid Society, and as a union-side labor lawyer.
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Under her direction, the Freelancers Union built a first-of-its-kind Portable Benefits Network in 2004 and launched the Freelancers Insurance Company in 2009, which provided health insurance to more than 25,000 New York freelancers before it was closed in 2014. She has worked for the UAW, CSEA, and SEIU, and she currently serves on the board of the Albert Shanker Institute. She has been working for unions since age 18, when she held a summer internship at the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sara Horowitz (born January 13, 1963) is a founder of the Freelancers Union and a proponent of mutualism.
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