Thomas Walker is the Assistant to the Vice-President for Communications Workers of America’s Public, Healthcare and Education Workers Sector. He got involved in politics through the anti-war movements of the early 2000s and living wage solidarity organizing, and he went on to be an early member of United Campus Workers, organizing Southern public workers excluded from collective bargaining rights. He spent nearly a decade as a rank-and-file activist and leader in UCW, before joining CWA staff to develop political and campaign programs–especially in a statewide fight to defeat mass privatization in Tennessee. He has managed numerous local and state legislative campaigns for progressive, pro-labor women of color. His work is focused on building up the independent political power of the working class, and organizing public sector workers especially in the South and Southwest. Thomas is an avid reader, hiker, dancer, and reluctant resident of Washington DC. He is a socialist.