Sheilah Garland-Olaniran

Sheilah Garland-Olaniran, daughter of a Flint, Michigan autoworker, has spent a lifetime fighting for working people. From Alabama, where she was president of the Birmingham, Chapter of the Southern Conference Education Fund, back to Flint where she helped organize a women's union activist group, to service as a local union president in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Today, Sheilah organizes nurses throughout the country, currently in the Deep South. A graduate of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute and a member of the National Welfare Rights Union, she has written numerous articles and blogs and is co-author of an important new pamphlet, “No More Traditions Chains,” a political analysis of the critical role of the labor movement in the United States today.