NORTHEAST REGIONAL ORGANIZER, OFFSHORE WIND

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 Kassidy Danielle Slaughter is the Northeast Regional Organizer for Offshore Wind, where she facilitates collaborations between labor and environmental groups to promote equitable careers in the clean energy industry. She assists with the production of labor organizing strategies and policy approaches to uplift communities’ needs in instituting offshore wind.

Kassidy is a new member of the BlueGreen Alliance team, having joined in July 2024. They graduated from Cornell University in May 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations and minors in Law and Society and Information Science with a concentration in Information Ethics, Law, and Policy. Their coursework and research were focused on human-centered technology development, planning collaborative solutions to the climate crisis, and the impacts of clean energy on rural America.

She is a founding member and former President of the Digital Economy and Labor Club, a student organization. Kassidy and her peers studying labor issues saw an absence of conversations at Cornell about how technology affects workers’ lives. She connected fellow students to internship opportunities with Cornell professors in analyzing the intersection of social justice and data science, along with hosting networking workshops with industry professionals and academics to support students pursuing careers in Science and Technology Studies (STS). She applied her interest in advocating for ethics in information studies by publishing an article in December 2023 entitled “Government Website Inaccessibility and the Future of Accessibility in Information Technology” in the Cornell Undergraduate Research Journal. Kassidy produced a literature review of policies supposedly designed to support disabled people’s interactions with the internet, noted the flaws in these policies, and formulated her own policy recommendations.

Before coming to the BlueGreen Alliance, Kassidy worked in the Repair and Redress research lab at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, where she coordinated an independent project. They investigated how coal communities shaped the cultural, economic, and social landscape of Southwest Virginia, and how Appalachian coal miners and environmental activists are uniquely addressing the consequences of coal on the region. She further shared her passion for union labor and worker-driven climate policy in her role as a research fellow with the Climate Jobs Institute. She interviewed pre-apprenticeship program representatives and her findings were published in the “Building an Equitable, Diverse, & Unionized Clean Energy Economy: What We Can Learn from Apprenticeship Readiness” report.