Named for labor champions Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones, and Frederick Douglass, DJDI is working to address the U.S. healthcare crisis by organizing working people in support of Medicare for All.
Mission
Named for labor champions Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones, and Frederick Douglass, the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (DJDI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1998. DJDI is working to address the health care crisis in the United States by organizing working people in support of Medicare for All through grassroots organizing and popular education as well as conducting research and policy. DJDI seeks to amplify the need for a robust Just Transition for health insurance and healthcare workers as we move toward Medicare for All.
Board of Directors
Mark Dudzic, Chair and President
National Organizer, Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Les Leopold, Director
Executive Director, Labor Institute
Adolph Reed Jr., Director
University of Pennsylvania
Katherine Isaac, Secretary-Treasurer
Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute
Executive Director
Katherine Isaac
Organizers
Willie Legette, Lead Organizer, South Carolina
Louis Malfaro, Health Care Justice Organizer, Texas
Chris Nelson, Field Organizer, South Carolina
Adolph Reed Jr, Organizer, South Carolina
Nick Rubin, Field Organizer, South Carolina
Senior Advisors
Jose La Luz, Hispanic Campaigns Associates
James Felder, President/CEO, Voter Education Center, South Carolina