Oral History Interview with Nina Schulman

Nina Schulman grew up in an upper-middle class Jewish family in New York City where unions were a normal part of the culture and community. She attended Yale University, where she became involved in supporting a union organizing drive by clerical and technical workers. After graduating, she and her husband Hal decided to pursue careers in the labor movement, with Hal taking a job as an organizer with Local 100 in New Orleans and Nina initially working as a communications director before transitioning to organizing work herself.