Becky Wasserman

She is on the board of directors of the left-wing Local Progress group³ and the left-of-center Center for Community Change (CCC),⁴ has made contributions to the left-wing Working Families Party National Political Action Committee,⁵ and has received organizing training from the far-left Wellstone Action (currently known as RePower) and the left-wing community organizing training center Midwest Academy. ⁶

Career

Wasserman joined Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in 2015 as the deputy director of government relations and was promoted to director of government affairs in 2018. ¹ She describes herself as an “organizer for racial and economic justice” on her Twitter profile. ²

In 2019, Wasserman co-signed a letter with the liberal National Employment Law Project (NELP) and the Child Labor Coalition opposing proposed U.S. Department of Labor changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act. ⁷

Prior to working at SEIU, Wasserman was the director of campaigns and organizing for American Jewish World Service, where she organized a new department within the organization. ¹ From 2010 to 2012, Wasserman was the deputy director of government affairs at the left-of-center lobbying organization focused on American-Israeli relations J Street, where she designed and executed advocacy trainings for grassroots activists for J Street’s national field network. ⁸

Wasserman was government relations manager at the now-defunct American Rights at Work from 2004 to 2010, where she advocated for changes to national labor law to ease union organizing. ¹

Wasserman also owns her own consulting firm, Wasserman Consulting. ⁹

Activist Roles

Wasserman sits on the board of directors of the left-wing Local Progress group³ and the left-of-center Center for Community Change (CCC). She is the co-chair of CCC’s fundraising and resource innovation center⁴ and on the advisory committee of Our Story Hub, a project of the Proteus Fund, which advises left-of-center politicians and groups on communication strategies. ¹⁰

From 2002 to 2004, Wasserman was president of the left-of-center United States Student Association (USSA), which supports race-based social policy implementation in the education field. ¹ As vice president of USSA, she spoke at the 2003 National Student Labor Week of Action in Chicago, IL. ⁶

Wasserman has been trained by the left-of-center Rockwood Leadership program, the far-left Wellstone Action (currently known as RePower), and the left-wing community organizing training center Midwest Academy. ⁶

Political Activism and Contributions

Wasserman has a history of donations to left-of-center and left-wing political action committees and Democratic Party political candidates. Since 2018, Wasserman has regularly contributed to SEIU COPE, the SEIU’s political action committee. ¹¹

In 2019, Wasserman donated money to the Democratic Party primary campaign of Christina Tzintzun Ramirez, who sought to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). ¹² In 2018, Wasserman donated money to the left-wing Working Families Party National Political Action Committee;⁵ the left-of-center Be a Hero PAC, which opposes right-leaning judicial nominations;¹³ Liz Watson’s Democratic Party campaign for Congress,¹⁴ and other Democratic Party congressional candidates.

Wasserman has also contributed to the campaigns of Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)¹⁵ and the left-of-center lobbying organization PowerPAC+. ¹⁶

Lobbying

Wasserman has been a listed lobbyist and lobbied on behalf of J Street from 2010 to 2012 and the left-of-center labor activism group American Rights at Work from 2007 to 2010. ¹⁷

Early Life and Personal Information

Rebecca “Becky” Wasserman was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. ¹  She resides in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. ⁵