Ariel Jacobson

Ariel Jacobson is a senior associate in UUSC's Economic Justice Program. The program, grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, develops strategic partnerships and builds movements in the United States and abroad, focusing on promoting workers' rights and living wages and seeking to influence state and national policies that advance progressive social change.

Jacobson works collaboratively with several grassroots partners. These include a worker justice center in northwest Arkansas, a national network of informal workers and a women-led child labor project in Kenya, a training and leadership program for women in Central America, an outreach project that advocates for women maquila workers in Mexico, and research and reporting on emerging labor policy in China.  

Prior to joining UUSC, Jacobson worked with social-justice and human-rights organizations focusing on women's rights, indigenous people's rights, immigrants' rights, grassroots neighborhood development, and youth leadership development. She holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I., and a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.