Susan Moir

Director, Labor Resource Center

W-4-144-11

617-287-7377

Susan Moir, ScD, Director of the Labor Resource Center, has been active in the union movement for 30 years. In September 2004, she came to UMB from UMass Lowell where she co-founded and was the first Director of the Construction Occupational Health Program (COHP). Her fields of expertise are worker health and safety, popular education and participatory action research. Her most recent article, “Ideological influences on participatory research in occupational health and safety: A review of the literature," was published in 2005 in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy.

Susan is a Boston native who spent many years as a Boston school bus driver and union steward before going to UML. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her partner and their two children. She received her BA from UMass Boston and is pleased to have returned to the campus and again be part of the UMB community.