Our board is made up of a small group of community leaders from the private sector and nonprofit organizations committed to promoting the interests of freelancers and independent workers.

Sara Horowitz is founder and Executive Director of Freelancers Union, a nonprofit organization that represents the needs and concerns of independent workers and has developed a platform that has allowed thousands of freelancers to maintain insurance coverage as they move from job to job. Sara has been widely recognized for her entrepreneurial efforts to create a new labor institution for independent workers. In 1999, Sara was honored with a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Schwab Foundation selected her to be one of its 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow at the 2002 World Economic Forum. Before founding Freelancers Union, Sara was a labor attorney in private practice and a union organizer with 1199, the National Health and Human Service Employees Union. She has a master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a law degree cum laude from the SUNY Buffalo Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Horowitz is the Treasurer and Finance Chair of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and is on the board of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation.

Andrew Kassoy is Co-Founder of B Corporation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to harnessing the power of private enterprise for public benefit. This sector is comprised of a new type of corporation—the B Corporation—which is purpose-driven and creates benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. Previously, Andrew spent 16 years in the private equity business, most recently at MSD Capital, the $12 billion investment vehicle for Michael Dell. Before MSD, Andrew was Managing Director in Credit Suisse First Boston’s Private Equity Department, a founding Partner of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners, and President of its international business. He is a Board Member of Echoing Green, an Advisory Board member of Wall St. Without Walls, and an advisor to Civic Builders. Andrew graduated with Distinction from Stanford University where he was a Truman Scholar and winner of the President’s Award. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and has been active in Colorado politics and as a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Charles Heckscher is a Professor at Rutgers University and Director of the Center for Workplace Transformation. His research focuses on organization change and the changing nature of employee representation. He has also worked as a practitioner and consultant on processes of organizational development, primarily in the telecommunications industry. Before coming to Rutgers he worked for the Communications Workers’ union and taught Human Resources Management at the Harvard Business School. His books include The New Unionism, White-Collar Blues, Agents of Change, and The Collaborative Enterprise.

Stephanie Buchanan served as Working Today’s Director of Policy and Advocacy before joining Working Today’s Board of Directors in 2007. As Director of Policy and Advocacy, she developed and coordinated advocacy campaigns and oversaw the organization’s research on the independent workforce.  Prior to Working Today, she was a Knowledge Specialist at McKinsey & Company with a special focus on E-Business & Organization.  She has a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Texas and earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.

Hanan B. Kolko is a union side labor and employee benefits lawyer, and a Shareholder and Director at the law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein. He represents clients before federal and state courts, the National Labor Relations Board, the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, and in arbitrations and negotiations.  He has served on the Board of Directors of the Freelancers Union since 2001 and as chairperson of the Freelancers Union Board since 2005. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and received a B.S. from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

David Landis is a writer, editor and journalist specializing in finance and investing topics. He has been freelancing full time since 2001. A contributing editor to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, David has also written for The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal Online. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute’s Council of Examiners. Previously, David was a business and technology reporter at USA Today, a website developer for IBM, and an editor at TheStreet.com. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.

Trisala Chandaria is the co-founder of Temboo, a cloud-computing company committed to demystifying information technology and liberating enterprise-level data-management toys from corporate clutches so that everybody can play. Prior to Temboo, she studied political science at Harvard and started a consulting firm for private equity and venture capital firms in Europe. Her passions include disruptive networks, entrepreneurship, and, via Temboo, banishing all complexity from IT software and services forever. She grew up in Switzerland, so she has a thing for chocolate, too.