Who We Are
We are four workers and organizers with backgrounds in the climate nonprofit sector, the labor movement, and state-level politics. Caitlin, Danny, and Meg co-founded and are workers at Breach Collective (Breach), a unionized, worker self-directed nonprofit organization that supports grassroots campaigns in the climate and labor movements. Isabel is a Communications Workers of America (CWA) organizer who supports workers at nonprofits and ski patrols in their organizing efforts. She is also a founding member and former leader of the Political Workers Guild of Colorado, a first-of-its-kind union of political workers.
The four of us have firsthand experience unionizing and participating in unions within our own workplaces, and have helped hundreds of workers in nonprofits and other sectors organize their organizations, assert their rights, secure union representation, and win a union contract. The content and resources offered in the handbook come from our own experiences.
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Caitlin Howard
Caitlin (she/her) is a co-founder of Breach Collective and a writer and activist who understands that systemic change is not possible without empathic listening and effective storytelling. She has worked for over a decade in nonprofit and movement spaces, helping articulate and elevate stories to drive change. -
Danny Noonan
Danny (he/him) is a co-founder of Breach Collective and an advocate, strategist, and lawyer whose career has been dedicated to campaign-based solutions to the climate crisis. He has helped develop landmark climate change lawsuits and contributed to the scholarship on the role of climate change litigation in the broader climate movement. -
Isabel Aries
Isabel (she/her) a Communications Workers of America (CWA) organizer who works with workers at nonprofits and ski patrols to support them in their organizing efforts. She is also a founding member and former leader of the Political Workers Guild of Colorado, a first-of-its-kind union of political workers. -
Meg Ward
Meg (she/her) is a co-founder of Breach Collective and believes in storytelling as a means to build powerful and unified communities. At Breach, Meg spends her time developing effective storytelling strategies for campaigns and building labor power within the environmental justice movement.