Noelle Damico, Director of Social Justice

Noelle Damico is the Director of Social Justice at the Workers Circle and joined our staff in April 2020. With 30 years of experience in grassroots and institutional organizing at the local, regional, and national settings, Noelle is an adjunct teaching organizing and political advocacy at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has worked alongside the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for two decades to build consumer support for the farmworkers’ Campaign for Fair Food which gave birth to the internationally recognized Fair Food Program that has dramatically advanced human rights for farmworkers and the Worker-driven Social Responsibility paradigm. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Noelle previously served as national staff focused on human trafficking and farmworker rights for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)  and directed the United Church of Christ’s legislative network on Capitol Hill. Noelle has lectured widely on human rights, forced labor, and corporate accountability including keynotes at the OSCE and the US Department of Justice conferences. She holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College as well as a M.Div. and Th.M from Princeton Theological Seminary. She resides in White Plains, NY with her husband Jeffrey Geary and their son August Xavier.