In his role at the director of child labor advocacy at the National Consumers League (NCL), Reid coordinates the activities of the Child Labor Coalition (CLC), which has 38 organizational members and strives to minimize exploitative child labor domestically and internationally and works to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of child workers in the United States and abroad. The CLC has worked with Congress and federal agencies to improve child labor responses, educate the public about child labor issues, and organize responses from the nonprofit community.

Prior to joining NCL in 2008, Reid worked for 12 years at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs where he served as the communications director and led the Children in the Fields Campaign. Its goal is to end the legal loopholes in US child labor law that permit child agricultural laborers to work longer hours, to work at younger ages, and to perform hazardous work at younger ages than children working in other industries. That work to protect child farmworkers continues.
We face new challenges with the recent expansion of hazardous child labor in the US and state and federal child labor increasingly under attack. Internationally, critical US government funding for international child labor remediation projects has ended abruptly.

Ron Estrada serves as the chief executive officer of Farmworker Justice, a national advocacy organization based in Washington, DC that works to improve the living and working conditions of farmworkers and their families. Formally, Estrada served as senior vice president of corporate social responsibility and government relations for Univision Communications where he oversaw the portfolio with community-based organizations, key local and national stakeholders and leaders from public and private sectors.

Estrada also co-founded the Univision Foundation where he developed and directed the implementation of the foundation’s first charter.  Moreover, Estrada led Univision’s policy, advocacy, and CSR initiatives for network and local media teams representing 126 broadcast and radio stations throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Formerly, Estrada also served as senior executive for UnidosUS and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Nina Mast (she/they) joined EPI in 2022 as an economic analyst on the State Policy and Research team. Mast’s research at EPI includes a focus on child labor standards.  Mast is a graduate of the Master of Public Policy program at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School, where she served as a researcher for the UC Berkeley Labor Center and represented academic student employees as a union steward with UAW-2865.

Mast has been interviewed or quoted by numerous outlets including ABC News, NBC News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, and The New Yorker, and appeared on American Public Media for “Marketplace” and the popular “Pitchfork Economics” podcast. 

Before graduate school, Mast worked as a researcher in the labor movement and at issue advocacy organizations focused on health care and the economy. At SEIU Local 32BJ, she conducted research to support fast-food workers in Connecticut and commercial cleaning workers in New York. Prior to 32BJ, she worked on issue campaigns at The Hub Project and efforts to advance a progressive economic worldview at the Groundwork Collaborative.

Charlie Wishman became secretary-treasurer of the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, in January of 2012, and president of the organization on May 1, 2020.

Charlie is a member of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Local 254.  He has also been a member of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

He has worked as community liaison for the Food Bank of Iowa and first became a union member working as an organizer for Iowa Citizen Action Network in 2006.  In 2009 he became a Communications Specialist for AFSCME Iowa Council 61.

In the fall of 2011 he came to work for the Iowa Federation of Labor as Communications Director.  Charlie also served as President of the Iowa Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council and also serves on the Iowa Workforce Development Board, the Labor Advisory Committee of the University of Iowa Labor Center, United Way of Central Iowa, the John L. Lewis Museum Board, The Iowa Labor History Society Board, the Labor Advisory Board of the Chicago Federal Reserve, as well as other boards and working groups to advocate for the advancement of  the cause of working people.

Charlie graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 2002.  His family lives in Des Moines.  He is widowed and has two children who attend Des Moines Public Schools, Isaac and Ivy.

Kristina Cooke is an investigative reporter at Reuters focused on immigration. In 2025, she was part of a team of reporters who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for coverage of the fentanyl supply chain. In 2023, she and colleagues were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for an investigation into migrant child labor in the United States. Originally from Germany, she joined Reuters in London in 2005 and is now based in San Francisco.