Linda Nguyen
Linda Nguyen serves as Pacific Environment’s Climate Campaign Director, Corporate, and focuses on the Ship It Zero campaign, aimed at pushing retail cargo owners to leverage their purchasing power to accelerate the transition to a zero-emission shipping future. Linda brings 16 years of experience building corporate campaigns and leading teams that advance economic, environmental and racial justice through organizing, policy advocacy, coalition building and strategic communications.
In her previous role as chief of staff and executive director of El Centro at UFCW 770, she drove worker-led corporate and communications initiatives that resulted in industry-setting workplace health and safety measures for essential workers during the global pandemic, and historic 20-37% pay increases for low wage workers that reversed decades of wage stagnation.
Linda previously co-founded Jobs to Move America and was the driving force in developing the organization’s transnational campaigns to reshore U.S. manufacturing jobs in the transportation industry. Her work led to the passing of good jobs policies on $6 billion of public projects and the creation of thousands of new unionized manufacturing jobs, covered by community benefits agreements, and pipelines for low-income and communities of color.
Linda is a mayoral appointed commissioner for the Los Angeles City Workforce Development Board, an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of California, Irvine.
