Dr. Louise Simmons, professor of social work, focuses on macro issues and policy, particularly economic justice issues. She has long been interested in the social movements that arise out of community-labor alliances. “I believe that labor and community need to coalesce and work together, and that labor needs to stand up for issues that are important to communities as well,” she explains. “For example, the Fight for $15, about raising the minimum wage, is a win-win for working people and their communities. It really changes lives.” She recently published an article on this issue in the Journal of Community Practice. For the Oxford Encyclopedia of Social Work, Dr. Simmons wrote the 2017 entry on economic justice. She and Dr. Harding also coauthored a chapter on community labor partnerships in the forthcoming Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations from Springer.