James Parks

Job Title: 
Senior Editor
Favorite Quote: 
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

Krishnamurti

I am a journalist by trade, and I worked for newspapers in five different states before joining the AFL-CIO staff in 1990. I also have been a seminary student, drug counselor, community organizer, event planner, adjunct college professor and county bureaucrat. My proudest career moment, though, was when I served, along with other union members and staff, as an official observer for South Africa’s first multiracial elections.