Susan R. Crandall
I am privileged to serve as the Director of the Center for Social Policy and Clinical Professor of Public Policy at the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Boston. I am a senior leader with extensive experience across business and philanthropic sectors.
I am passionate about fostering an interdisciplinary and inclusive approach to improve the quality of jobs and advancement opportunities for workers. I leverage my deep knowledge of and experience in workforce and economic policies to craft innovative research, design evaluations, and develop guidance for policymakers and practitioners.
My work has been widely published and featured in national and local media. I am a frequent speaker at community and industry events. I tweet @WorkResults
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The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.