Scruggs-Leftwich, Yvonne

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich is a professor at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the executive director and chief operating officer of the nonprofit, Black Leadership Forum, Inc. She has worked in civil service and urban policy in the positions of Deputy Mayor of Philadelphia and Housing Commissioner of New York. She writes a syndicated column for the National Newspaper Association. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.