Welcome our New UniServ Director!

Below is an excerpt from an e-mail from Beblon Parks announcing our new UniServ Director. He will be taking the place of Helen Marlow who recently retired. 

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It is my pleasure to announce that VEA is welcoming another new UniServ Director to our ranks.  Brian G. Pfeifer has accepted the Southwest UniServ Position (Coverage Zone B) and will report for duty on Monday, March 17, 2014.    Prior to accepting the position in Southwest, Brian worked as an Organizing Coordinator for the American Federation of Teachers-Kansas.  He has been an organizer for several organizations including the following: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement,  March on Wall Street South and Project Staff Organizer for AFSCME.  He also worked as a Freelance Journalist and Photographer and Editor-in- Chief for UWM Post, Inc.

Brian holds a B.A. in Journalism and Minor in Africology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a M.A. in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.  He has attended and led numerous union and community organizing workshops.  Brian says he is looking forward to working with the members and staff here in Virginia.