Arianna Schindle

Arianna Schindle joins the Worker Institute as an Extension Associate for Training and Organizational Development under the Worker Rights and Equity Team. Arianna brings to this role more than 12 years of experience in the design of training and curriculum to assist the community, labor, and social justice movement leaders transform their organizations and building worker and grassroots power. She is a leading practitioner of adult theories of learning with a trauma-informed and language justice lens to create transformative peer training curriculum modules.

Arianna's accomplishments in the field of adult learning include co-founding the Delfino Leadership Institute, education & training collective with NYS Worker Centers; designing training programs for the Drivers Guild representing Uber and Lift drivers in cities across the US; developing a training institute for Mexican guest workers with the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM); and elevating the Worker Institute's Equity @ Work “We Rise Nanny Peer Training Certificate Program," to become a key component of NDWA's Care Forward campaign, a community-based model seeking to raise wages and industry standards for workers in the care economy. She also has experience leading organizational audits and trainings design on sexual harassment & domestic violence prevention for labor unions such as SEIU, UNITEHERE, and several building trade unions.

Arianna holds an M.S. of Public Health & Policy from the City University of NY and an M.S. on Community Health & Program Planning from the Silberman School of Social Work. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Kalamazoo College, Michigan.