Linda Nguyen serves as Pacific Environment’s Director of Strategic Partnerships, Climate, where she leads the advancement of high road industry and stakeholder partnerships to leverage an accelerated transition to a zero-emissions shipping future. Linda brings 16 years of experience negotiating agreements and leading teams that advance environmental, economic and racial justice through organizing, policy, coalition building and strategic communications.
In her previous role as chief of staff and executive director of El Centro at one of the largest U.S. private sector unions, she drove initiatives that resulted in industry-setting workplace health and safety measures during the global pandemic, and historic 20-37% pay increases for low wage workers that reversed decades of wage stagnation.
Linda previously co-founded Jobs to Move America and was the driving force in developing the organization’s transnational campaigns to reshore U.S. manufacturing jobs in the transportation industry. Her work led to the passing of good jobs policies on $6 billion of public projects and the creation of thousands of good manufacturing jobs, covered by community benefits agreements and pipelines for low-income and communities of color.
Linda is a mayoral appointed commissioner for the Los Angeles City Workforce Development Board, an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of California, Irvine.
