The Reverend Noelle Damico has been the Director of Social Justice at the Workers Circle since April 2020. With 30 years of experience in grassroots and institutional organizing, Noelle is an adjunct assistant professor at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, teaching organizing and political advocacy. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Noelle previously served as national staff focused on human trafficking and farmworker rights for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and directed the United Church of Christ’s legislative network on Capitol Hill. Noelle has lectured widely on human rights, forced labor and corporate accountability, including keynotes at the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe and the U.S. Department of Justice conferences. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, in addition to a M.Div. and Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary. She resides in White Plains, N.Y., with her husband, Jeffrey Geary, and is thrilled that their son, August Xavier, is off to Vienna this fall to study the history of democracy and authoritarianism at Central European University.