Mia Dell

Mia Dell is the Deputy Director of Advocacy at the AFL-CIO. In this role she helps lead the federation’s development of policy and strategy to build power for 12.5 million members and all workers.

For the past twenty years, Mia has been working in strategic advocacy: first as senior staff for two members of Congress, then as a nutrition and hunger advocate, and most recently representing the interests of workers from a variety of workplaces – meatpacking plants and food retail, federal, state and city employees, healthcare, airports, and fast food – at United Food and Commercial Workers, American Federation of Federal Employees, and Services Employees International Union.

As a nutrition advocate, Mia laid the groundwork for the nutrition labeling requirements for restaurants that passed as part of the Affordable Care Act.  Representing the interests of slaughterhouse workers, Mia led the multi-stakeholder coalition to stop the poultry industry from running their industrial slaughter lines at an unregulated speed.  Most recently, Mia was Policy Director at SEIU, shaping and advocating for federal and state labor law reforms that would embed worker voice and create the ability to organize for millions of workers.

Earlier still, she began her career as a housing attorney at Bronx Legal Services in the South Bronx, New York.  She is a graduate of Earlham College and New York Law School.