Minsu Longiaru, a Data & Society affiliate, is a senior staff attorney for worker power at PowerSwitch Action, a national network of 21 organizing and advocacy groups working on economic justice, housing, and workers’ rights in cities and states around the country. She provides legal support and strategic thought partnership to organizing and policy campaigns that build worker power through the interaction of organizing, comprehensive campaigning, direct representation, impact litigation, and policy and administrative strategies. A particular focus of her work involves supporting grassroots, community, and worker- centered campaigns that address social justice issues intersecting with work and technology.

Minsu has years of experience providing wide-ranging support to movements, community-based groups, and organizers. Most recently, she worked as a deputy attorney general with the state of California’s worker rights and fair labor section, addressing systemic business practices that undermine the working conditions of app- based workers, warehouse workers, and others. For their work, Minsu and her colleagues were awarded the Attorney General Team Award in 2021 and 2022. Minsu has also represented workers and labor organizations at a union-side law firm, held local and national leadership positions with grassroots workers centers, and served as a Skadden fellow and Fulbright García-Robles fellow.  Committed to centering worker and community voices in decision-making, Minsu is the co-author of a popular education toolkit on work and technology designed to facilitate worker- and community-based discussions, strategizing, and power-building.  She holds a BA and JD from Harvard University.