Jake Allen is a lead organizer with SEIU Local 200United, where he has helped to build the local labor movement for over 12 years. As a labor activist, Jake has helped organize more than 350 adjunct faculty at Nazareth College, helped organize fast food worker strikes during the Fight for $15 - which resulted in hundreds of thousands of fast food workers in NYS winning a pathway to $15/hr - and is now in the middle of a strike campaign with more than 1,500 graduate workers at the University of Rochester who are fighting for the right to form a union. Jake is also a member of Council with Metro Justice and now helps train new union activists through the Rochester Area Labor Federation’s Organizer School.