Pride Month Profiles: Marisa Borreggine

For Pride Month, the AFL-CIO is spotlighting various LGBTQ+ Americans who have worked and continue to work at the intersection of civil and labor rights. Today’s Pride Month profile is Marisa Borreggine of UAW.

Marisa Borreggine studies the interface between climate modelling, sea-level theory and ancient human migration. At Harvard, they helped create the Queer Earth Scientist Organization (QuESO) and served as vice president of the Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU-UAW) from 2020 to 2021. They currently specialize in handling grievance cases related to power- and identity-based harassment and discrimination and train grievance officers on trauma-informed grievance handling strategies.