Meet Justin Karr Conley
Title: Senior Digital Strategist
Years at NEA: 6 years
Denver, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Little Rock, Columbus, Portland, and a slew of Red for Ed states.
When NEA members take a work action or go on strike, more often than not Justin Conley is there, helping them to grow and leverage their power through strategic communications and digital tools.
Get this: During the Portland strike, union members and parents sent a whopping 115,384 emails and 28,056 texts directly to school board members, urging them—over and over again—to pay teachers fairly and get rid of the rats in their schools.
That tactic would never have happened without Justin. He knows what buttons to push—and when to push them—and he is constantly on the road, sharing that know-how with NEA affiliate staff and leaders.
Truly, it seems like every labor organizer in the Southeast and half of the folks in other states have his number on speed dial. And here are the things he tells them:
- Let’s make a plan.
- The best way to avoid a strike is to prepare for one. And
- Y’ALL ARE AMAZING!
Fun Facts about Justin
Justin was a 2023 graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program and was invited back this year as program faculty and lead a session on digital strategy for union leaders from around the world.
If you don’t know how to say Appalachia properly, you better learn before you call him and mess it up.
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