Vincent Albanese
Director of Policy and Public Affairs, New York State Laborers’ Organizing Fund
Albanese joined a union and started working in construction during high school, continuing all through college at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He interned on Hillary Clinton’s U.S. Senate campaign after college. In 2010, he took a job as a field coordinator with the New York State Laborers’ Union, becoming the organization’s in-house lobbyist in 2018.
Albanese is currently involved in project advocacy and finding job opportunities for the union’s members, noting that the shift in energy policy away from fossil fuels is challenging for construction workers.