I was born and raised in Western New York – my dad was a construction worker and my mother a hairdresser. I was the first in my family to go to college, graduating from the University at Buffalo, where I played football and was captain of the 1987 team. I worked my way through school on the construction site where I learned the value of hard work.

After graduating with honors, I attended the University of Illinois graduate school to study labor and industrial relations. Inspired to help families like my own, I traveled the country and helped organize low-wage workers. As a union organizer working for the Laborer’s Union, I successfully ran winning organizing campaigns for poultry workers in Mississippi, nurses in Northern California and immigrant demolition workers in New York City. The experience of empowering working people and building a winning campaign developed the skills that I now use in representing our clients.
 
My ambition is to empower working families and to help them build the skills necessary to fight and survive. That is why I focus my practice on representing hard working people in personal injury and workers compensation cases. 

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