Dr. Teófilo Reyes

Teófilo Reyes leads ROC United’s efforts to build worker power, professionalize the restaurant industry, and advance the Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights. Prior to ROC, Teófilo served as co-director and staff writer at Labor Notes, director of tie-global in North America, helped build the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, helped found the National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty, and was a community organizer with the United Farm Workers in Chicago. Dr. Reyes’ first job was at McDonald’s. Teófilo holds a BA in Economics and Russian from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago, where he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He was a visiting scholar and lecturer at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Teófilo was born in Carson City, Michigan, and raised in Mexico City.