Scotty Embree

An organizer and activist by family tradition, Scotty Embree spent the first half of her career in nonprofits, academia, and organized labor. She served as director of the NJ Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, a coalition of union locals, during crises including the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Chemical Control Corp explosion, and the air controllers strike. She served on staff with the NYC Firefighters Union – International Association of Firefighters, and as shop steward for OPEIU 153 (the union for the staff at the NYC Firefighters). She worked at NJ’s Office for Occupational Education, developing training programs for mass layoffs of more than a couple of thousand steelworkers and autoworkers. Later she worked as a technology consultant for Citibank, IBM-Kingston, CIBC Oppenheimer, AIG, and Alliance Bernstein. In retirement, she returned to working with children and communities, helping to organize the 400,000-person march for environmental change in 2014 and becoming an active member and Trustee of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. She is active in multiple community groups, including Bloomingdale Aging in Place, Womanshare (a CSA/Community Supported Agriculture group), and Brooklyn Co-Housing.