02/02/2017
Sharon Block to Join Harvard's Labor and Worklife Program as Executive Director
Sharon BlockSharon Block, currently the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor and Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Labor, will be the new Executive Director of Harvard University's Labor and Worklife Program. She will join faculty co-directors Richard Freeman and Benjamin Sachs and staff members Lorette Baptiste, Larry Beeferman and John Trumpbour at the Program. Block will succeed Elaine Bernard, who has successfully served in the role of Executive Director since 1989.
"We are delighted that someone with Sharon Block's extensive experience and deep insight into the issues facing 21st Century workers will become the Labor and Worklife Program's new director," said Sachs, the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School. "We welcome Sharon to Harvard and look forward to building together on the superb work the Program has done under Elaine Bernard's leadership.