He has served as regional lead organizer for LIUNA since 2002 and was formerly Delaware’s Labor Chair for the NAACP, commissioner, and vice-chair of Wilmington Housing Authority.

John became a union member in 1995 as a commercial laborer and has since been involved in the labor movement as an organizer and subsequently an executive board member. As a regional lead organizer, John led campaigns in Delaware, New York, and New Jersey.

He was born in Harlem and relocated to Delaware in his teens. John attended Claymont High School in Delaware where he played running back for the Claymont Indians. During his senior year, his path traversed and he ended up involved with the criminal justice system.

After serving an eight-month sentence John entered Job Corp, secured a job with the local laborer’s union, and began his life’s journey of reconnecting individuals to opportunity. Over the years, John has organized over 1000 workers and helped secure life-changing careers for hundreds of individuals and families.

John’s transformative journey from Harlem to the streets of Delaware, to prison, to Rutgers University, to Cornell University, and finally to the executive board rooms of organized labor and his vision and fight for the inclusion of the most marginalized members of our community, sparked the formation of a collaboration between organized labor and community stakeholders and the development L.E.E.P., Inc, and the Pathways Programs.