Press Advisory: On September 6, Institute to Release New Report on How Apprenticeships Can Advance Racial and Gender Equity and Strengthen the Economy in New Jersey

Press call-in information: 732-447-9901; Code: 567841

RSVP: Institute Communications Director Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg at ewgreenberg@njisj.org

Newark, New Jersey—On September 6, 2018, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (Institute) will release Becoming the United States of Opportunity: the Economic Equity and Growth Case for Apprenticeships, a new report on how apprenticeship programs can strengthen our economy and advance economic opportunity by connecting residents—particularly women and people of color—to living wage careers.

In conjunction with the report release, the Institute will host a press call on Thursday, September 6 at 11:00 AM with:

Senator M. Teresa Ruiz;

Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner of the NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development;

Ryan P. Haygood, President and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice;

Demelza Baer, Institute Senior Counsel and Director of the Economic Mobility Initiative, and the

report’s primary author;

Eric M. Seleznow, Senior Advisor and Director of the Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based

Learning at Jobs for the Future (JFF);

Michellene Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs for RWJBarnabas Health;

Rick Thigpen, Senior Vice President—Corporate Citizenship, PSE&G; and

Maria Heidkamp, Senior Researcher and Director, New Start Career Network at the John J.

Heldrich Center for Workforce Development

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