RoseAnn DeMoro is the former executive director of
National Nurses United and the
and a former national vice president and executive board member of the
AFL–CIO.
Personal life and education
DeMoro was born in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
in 1949 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood. She earned a degree in women's studies from
Southern Illinois University. She married in 1968 and after college, she and her husband moved to
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coas ...
, where she began to work on a PhD in sociology. During that time, she worked as an organizer for the
American Federation of Teachers and the University of California clerical workers. She gave up her studies to work for the
Teamsters as the first female organizer for the Western Conference of Teamsters. DeMoro later described the sexism she experienced at the Teamsters as "intolerable," and in 1986, she took a collective bargaining position at the California Nurses Association.
DeMoro married her high school boyfriend, Don DeMoro, in 1968. They have two children.
Career
DeMoro is the former executive director of
National Nurses United, the largest professional and labor organization of registered nurses in the United States. De Moro is also the former executive director of the
. She retired in March 2018.
DeMoro has been profiled in ''The New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''San Francisco Chronicle'', ''Business Week,'' and the ''Chicago Tribune''. She has also appeared on some national and California news programs, including ''Bill Moyers Journal'', CBS' ''60 Minutes'', PBS' ''Now'', and the ''Lehrer News Hour''.
Honors and awards
DeMoro has been named "America's Best & Brightest" by ''Esquire'' magazine, dubbed "The Most Influential Woman You've Never Heard Of" by ''More'' magazine, honored among "America's Most Influential Women" by MSN, and one of only eight people to be cited among the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" for 14 consecutive years by ''Modern Healthcare'' magazine.
References
External links
National Nurses UnitedCalifornia Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
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1949 births
American nurses
American women nurses
Living people
National Nurses United
People from St. Louis
Southern Illinois University alumni
American trade union leaders
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
21st-century American women
American women trade unionists
Trade unionists from Missouri
Vice presidents of the AFL–CIO