Lane Windham

Southern Exposure Contributor

Lane Windham is Associate Director of Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and co-director of WILL Empower (Women Innovating Labor Leadership). She is author of Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (UNC Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 David Montgomery Award.   Windham spent nearly twenty years working in the union movement, including as a union organizer. She earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Maryland and a B.A. from Duke University.

Lane Windham is a media specialist with the AFL-CIO and used to organize in the South with the union UNITE. She was a Southern Exposure intern and is now an occasional contributor. (1999)

Lane Windham, a public relations specialist with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, is a former editorial assistant with Southern Exposure. (1997)

Lane Windham is an Organizing Institute graduate and a contributor to Southern Exposure (1994)

Lane Windham is an editorial assistant and Eric Bates is managing editor of Southem Exposure. (1992)

Lane Windham is an editorial assistant at the Institute for Southern Studies. Robin Donovan, another editorial assistant, also contributed to this story. (1991)

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