David Carpio

      David Carpio is the National Education and Training Coordinator at the AFL-CIO. A biologist by training, he led an organizing drive of fellow researchers with the UAW while at Columbia University in New York. Eventually hired as an organizer by the UAW, he went on to organize several union campaigns over the next five years. David eventually left to begin work as a field director and campaign manager on a string of successful political campaigns at the local and statewide level, later rejoining the labor movement with the AFL-CIO in 2006. There, he conducts trainings and develops educational materials on organizing, politics, and communications. His programs and materials train over 4000 union activists and staff each year. He is also at the helm of the AFL-CIO’s ballot initiative work and recently served as the National GOTV (Get-Out-The-Vote) Coordinator for Labor during the 2008 presidential campaign, coordinating the mobilization of over 12 million union voters in 20 states.