Our People

Workers are coming together to build power across Alphabet.

Our Members

Our union is over a thousand members strong and growing.
First Last
She/Her
Google
John Cater
John Cater
He/Him
Google
Alberta Devor
Alberta Devor
She/Her
Google
TJ Merripen
TJ Merripen
He/It
GXO
Alexander Gorowara
Alexander Gorowara
He/Him
Verily
Alan Morales
Alan Morales
He/Him
Google
Alexander Roederer
Alexander Roederer
He/Him
Google
Bo Brinkman
Bo Brinkman
He/Him
Google
Rob Whitaker
Rob Whitaker
He/Him
Google
Jana Spencer
Jana Spencer
She/Her
Google
Brie Hubble
Brie Hubble
She/Her
Google
Dana Fried
Dana Fried
She/Her
Google
Erica Kovac
Erica Kovac
She/Her
Google
Natalie Weizenbaum
Natalie Weizenbaum
She/Her
Google
Justin Green
Justin Green
He/Him
Google
Molly FitzMorris
Molly FitzMorris
She/Her
Google
Julia Tuttle
Julia Tuttle
She/Her
Google
Samuel Sandeen
Samuel Sandeen
He/Him
Google
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis
He/Him
Google
Aniran Chandravongsri
Aniran Chandravongsri
He/Him
Google
Brian Ellis
Brian Ellis
He/Him
Google
Eric Willisson
Eric Willisson
He/Him
Google
Jadrian Sardiñas
Jadrian Sardiñas
He/Him
Google
Ryan Lester
Ryan Lester
He/They
Google
Brian Eaton
Brian Eaton
He/Him
Google
Samuel Freilich
Samuel Freilich
He/Him
Google
Austin Lee
Austin Lee
He/Him
Google
Leigh Angel
Leigh Angel
She/Her
Blinkk
Ojas Deshpande
Ojas Deshpande
He/Him
Google
Viet-Tam Luu
Viet-Tam Luu
He/Him
Google
Andrew Gainer-Dewar
Andrew Gainer-Dewar
He/Him
Google
Mike Vanne
Mike Vanne
Google
Lu Liu
Lu Liu
He/Him
Google
Yuri Lin
Yuri Lin
They/Them
Google
Andan Lauber
Andan Lauber
He/Him
Google
Daniel Barter
Daniel Barter
He/Him
Google
Andrew Sherman
Andrew Sherman
He/Him
Google
Sarah McGlinchey
Sarah McGlinchey
She/Her
Google
Xavid Pretzer
Xavid Pretzer
They/Them
Google
Harpo Jaeger
Harpo Jaeger
He/Him
Google
Chris Schmidt
Chris Schmidt
He/Him
Google
Aaron Krajeski
Aaron Krajeski
He/Him
Google
Tim Wilde
Tim Wilde
He/Him
Google
Kippy Gascoigne
Kippy Gascoigne
They/Him
Google
Isaac Clerencia
Isaac Clerencia
He/Him
Google
Michelle Shepardson
Michelle Shepardson
She/They
Google
Jeffrey Yasskin
Jeffrey Yasskin
He/Him
Google
Andy Blank
Andy Blank
He/Him
Google
Miriam Gershenson
Miriam Gershenson
She/Her
Google
Greg Edelston
Greg Edelston
He/Him
Google

Executive Board

Our executive board is elected by the membership.
First Last (She/Her)
Organizer
She/Her

Carmen was a rank-and-file union member and shop steward turned Organizer. She has a decade's worth of External, Internal, Political, and Community Organizing experience. Over the past 10 years, she has led several workers to victory and has yet to lose a campaign she has led or worked on. When Carmen is not organizing, she likes to spend time with her partner and children roller skating, playing video games, and drinking boba milk tea!

First Last (She/Her)
Organizer
She/Her

Carmen was a rank-and-file union member and shop steward turned Organizer. She has a decade's worth of External, Internal, Political, and Community Organizing experience. Over the past 10 years, she has led several workers to victory and has yet to lose a campaign she has led or worked on. When Carmen is not organizing, she likes to spend time with her partner and children roller skating, playing video games, and drinking boba milk tea!

First Last (She/Her)
Organizer
She/Her

Carmen was a rank-and-file union member and shop steward turned Organizer. She has a decade's worth of External, Internal, Political, and Community Organizing experience. Over the past 10 years, she has led several workers to victory and has yet to lose a campaign she has led or worked on. When Carmen is not organizing, she likes to spend time with her partner and children roller skating, playing video games, and drinking boba milk tea!

Tahmid Rahman
Treasurer
He/Him
Google
Tahmid is a senior software engineer in Travel Ads based in Cambridge, MA. He joined the Alphabet Workers Union after the 2023 mass layoffs. He decided it was time to start fighting alongside his coworkers for dignity and respect in the workplace. In addition to organizing, Tahmid enjoys math puzzles, board games, and playing and coaching ultimate frisbee.
Parul Koul
President
She/Her
Google
Parul is a software engineer at Google, based in Boston, MA. She has been involved in organizing at Alphabet since 2019 and is a founding member of the Alphabet Workers Union. She is passionate about tech and game worker organizing and has served as AWU’s President since 2021.
Olivia Asemota
Vice President
She/They
Google
Olivia is a Google software engineer in Geo, based in the California Bay Area, and has been an Alphabet Workers Union member since 2023. She joined the union after a close friend was impacted by the Jan. 2023 layoffs and knew it was time to work towards helping to build a better Google. When she isn’t organizing with the Union, you can find her out on the town with friends or re-murdering zombies in Call of Duty.
Stephen McMurtry
Communications Chair
He/Him
Google
Stephen is a Senior Software Engineer who works on Google Search. Prior to joining Google and AWU-CWA, he worked at Amazon for five years, where he was involved in climate organizing and the #NoTechForICE campaign. Now Stephen helps manage our union's internal and external communications. For fun, he does CrossFit, reads about ecology, and bakes great brownies.
Alan McAvinney
Organizing Chair
She/He/They
Google
Alan is a Google software engineer working in Search, based in Cambridge, MA. She has been organizing with Alphabet Workers Union since 2020.

Our Staff

Our team of full-time staff organizers helps us build power.
First Last (She/Her)
Organizer
She/Her

Carmen was a rank-and-file union member and shop steward turned Organizer. She has a decade's worth of External, Internal, Political, and Community Organizing experience. Over the past 10 years, she has led several workers to victory and has yet to lose a campaign she has led or worked on. When Carmen is not organizing, she likes to spend time with her partner and children roller skating, playing video games, and drinking boba milk tea!

First Last (She/Her)
Organizer
She/Her

Carmen was a rank-and-file union member and shop steward turned Organizer. She has a decade's worth of External, Internal, Political, and Community Organizing experience. Over the past 10 years, she has led several workers to victory and has yet to lose a campaign she has led or worked on. When Carmen is not organizing, she likes to spend time with her partner and children roller skating, playing video games, and drinking boba milk tea!

First Last (She/Her)
Organizer
She/Her

Carmen was a rank-and-file union member and shop steward turned Organizer. She has a decade's worth of External, Internal, Political, and Community Organizing experience. Over the past 10 years, she has led several workers to victory and has yet to lose a campaign she has led or worked on. When Carmen is not organizing, she likes to spend time with her partner and children roller skating, playing video games, and drinking boba milk tea!

Lysander Fyfe
Organizer
They/He/It

Based in Denver, CO, Lysander joined the AWU team in 2024 as an organizer. With 3 years of organizing experience, Lysander has worked with various workers and campaigns, from resident advisors to librarians, disability service workers to tutors. On days off, they enjoy crafting with friends, playing copious amounts of farming simulators, and relaxing in bed with their cat Jon Snow.

Alexis Villalobos
Organizer
He/Him

Before organizing, Alexis was a paralegal at various workers’ rights firms and worked on cases of discrimination, wrongful termination, contractor misclassification, and more. Since then, Alexis has organized SF janitors at SEIU Local 87, led grassroots electoral campaigns, and co-founded a community organization focused on building people power in his Bay Area home town. When he isn’t organizing, he’s singing karaoke and begging friends to try his cooking.

Don Brown
IT Coordinator
He/Him

Don is an experienced IT professional who has been working in the union industry for the last 22 years. Starting off as a part-time staff for SEIU he then became the Director of IT. After 18 years of directing IT with SEIU 521 he worked with SEIU 1021 as an IT Analyst. Now he has the privilege of being the IT Coordinator for Alphabet Workers Union, building a robust communication platform with today’s state of the art technology. In his spare time Don enjoys spending time with his family and friends including staying home and bbq’ing, going out to dinner, hiking, traveling and exploring the Boise area.

Hailey Huget
Organizer
She/They

Hailey has been organizing for over 7 years and is experienced with both collective bargaining and pre-majority campaigns. Hailey got their start as an organizer when they were pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at Georgetown University, where they helped to found Georgetown’s graduate worker union. These days they live in North Carolina with their partner, daughter, and dog. When she’s not working, she spends time gardening, reading science fiction novels, and hiking.

Sarah Koshar
Organizer
She/Her

Sarah is an organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. Previously she has organized within a variety of professions ranging from residential building workers to musicians to fast food workers. Outside of work she loves to spend time with her family, cook extravagant meals for community and care for her plants.

Shannon Wait
Organizer
She/Her

Shannon Wait joined AWU-CWA on launch day in 2021 as a Data Center Technician at a Google Data Center, becoming the first worker that members organized around after being suspended for organizing. Shannon joined the AWU staff in 2021 and now organizes raters, data workers, AI workers, and is focused on political organizing. Additionally, she led on issue-based campaigns surrounding pay increases, creating communication between employers and employees, and ensuring chosen names are placed on badges for members of the LGBTQ+ community at Data Centers.

Taylor DeWoody
Organizer
She/Her

After brief stints working in both legal advocacy and electoral politics, Taylor realized her theory of change was firmly rooted in the labor movement. She believes that equipping workers with the tools to take collective action is the most material and sustainable way to build power and make change. After two years working as an organizer for the Harvard Graduate Students Union, Taylor joined AWU in the summer of 2024. She is passionate about rank-and-file organizing, workplace democracy, long walks, novels, and sweet treats.

Matt Loveday
Organizing Director
He/Him

Matt is an experienced union organizer, having spent nearly twenty years leading and winning campaigns to build power for working people. He previously led the organizing department of the Pacific Northwest’s largest private sector union. When not organizing workers, he tries to organize his home in Seattle, where he is joined by his wife, daughter, and an unruly German shepherd.

Ana Langone
Operations Director
She/Her

Ana began working with the AWU Leadership and Staff Team in August 2022. She brings 12 years of union operations leadership and over 20 years of non-profit management experience to our Union in support of working people. Ana was inspired to work in social justice and labor by her Puerto Rican grandmother, who was a garment worker and leader in her own union, the ILGWU in New York City in the 1940s, and by her mother who broke glass ceilings as the only civilian woman GS-12 Contract Specialist for the US Navy in the 1970s.

Lauren Shiel
Administrative Coordinator
She/Her

Lauren is an administrative coordinator based in Seattle, WA. Prior to joining AWU staff, she had administrative and organizing experiences with other groups focusing on workplace democracy. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, writing, and exploring nature with her dog, Beans.

Carmen Estefani
Organizer
She/They

Carmen started in the labor movement in 2013 when she got her first union job at the OAK airport. She went from a rank-and-file member to steward to Organizer. Since then, she has worked with Tech cafeteria workers at Intel, Google, Facebook and hotel workers from around the Bay. Her most recent work was helping organize and win recognition at the Moxy Hotel in Oakland, it was the first hotel to win NLRB certification in Oakland in over 20 years! When Carmen is not organizing, you can find her and her family at a picket line or march supporting workers across the Bay.