Amaury Pineda, Ph.D.

Policy Analyst

amaury@jwj.org

Before joining Jobs With Justice, Pineda represented and advocated for graduate students’ rights as the Graduate Student Association president at Western Michigan University. He holds a law degree from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he worked as a labor lawyer before pursuing an M.A. at Western. Pineda completed his Ph.D. in political science with a focus on comparative politics and political theory in December 2021. Currently, he is a fellow practitioner at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

You can find Pineda watching movies, playing chess or basketball, and spending time with friends in his free time.