<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I’ve been lurking on this list for months, and I should really introduce myself.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">My name is Kati Sipp, and by day, I’m the director of Pennsylvania Working Families (an offshoot of the Working Families Party—we are not yet a political party in PA). </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I’ve spent 20+ years as a political and union organizer—starting in the peace movement in California, and then I spent about 15 years (on and off) working for various parts of the Service Employees International Union. My last job in the labor movement was with SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, where I served as Executive Vice President and Political Director of the local. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I left that gig a little over a year ago, and spent some time working as a consultant and starting a blog (<a href="http://www.hacktheunion.org/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hack the Union</span></a>) which is aimed at getting people in the economic justice movement to think about the future of work—and to be running campaigns that address the challenges that workers of all stripes face in the economy of the 21st century. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I have a deep and abiding love of technology, and I want to make sure that we develop an economic structure where the benefits of technology are felt by all—not just the richest among us. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I’m very much looking forward to this conference, and to meeting many of you in person. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Kati</div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1411692826372476928" class="bloop_sign"><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Kati Sipp<br><span>Sent with Airmail</span></div></body></html>