Ken Liu is a Senior Research Analyst with the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, UNITE HERE. As a researcher and strategic campaigner, Ken has worked on many UNITE HERE campaigns to organize gaming workers in Las Vegas as well as elsewhere in the U.S. Prior to joining the Culinary in October 2003, Ken was a graduate student at Yale University and a rank-and-file organizer with the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), where he first learned about the crucial role of research in union campaigns. He also attended the Corporate Strategic Research program at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in the summer of 2003.