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Interviewer
Max Krochmal
Contributor
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
7-29-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1989
Description
Ben Zucker is the co-director of Step Up Louisiana, an economic justice organization based in New Orleans. He grew up in a family of union organizers, with both of his parents involved in labor activism. Zucker was exposed to this work from a young age and continued his involvement in social justice movements as a student at Tulane University, where he supported campus workers' efforts to unionize. After graduating, Zucker worked on the Fight for 15 campaign, organizing fast food workers across the country, before returning to New Orleans to co-found Step Up Louisiana.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
2000s to present
Duration
51:51:00
File Size
2.14 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Zucker, Ben and Krochmal, Max, "Oral History Interview with Ben Zucker (Part 2)" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 5.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/5
Comments
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