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The Project Team
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Jim Keady
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Jim
Keady, the Mario
Savio Foundation's 2001 Young Activist of
the Year, is a former professional soccer
player with the NJ Imperials and a former
college coach with the St. John's University
Red Storm. Along with directing Educating
for Justice, he is currently playing for a
semi-pro team in New York City and he coaches
a high school boy's team in New Jersey.
Jim holds a masters degree with distinction
in theology from St. John's where he concentrated
his studies in social ethics and pastoral
theology. Along with studying theology, Jim
also coached with St. John's Men's Soccer
team, at the time, the NCAA Division One National
Champions. He was eventually fired from his
job because he refused to wear and promote
Nike's products as part of the school's $3.5
million dollar endorsement deal with the sportswear
giant.
Prior to his work with EFJ, Jim taught high
school religion for five years at schools
in New York and New Jersey. He also played
and coached soccer at the youth, high school,
college and professional levels. Along with
his graduate degree from St. John's, he holds
a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology
from St. Joseph's University. He has spent
time traveling the globe and doing volunteer
work in Asia and Europe with Mother Teresa's
Missionaries of Charity.
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Leslie Kretzu
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Leslie
Kretzu is currently doing graduate work
in Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in
New York City. Leslie had recently returned
from volunteering with Mother Teresa's Missionaries
of Charity in Calcutta, India and Katmandu,
Nepal when she was asked to join EFJ's immersion
team in the summer of 2000. Along with her
general responsibilities on the immersion
team, Leslie served as the project's photographer
and her photos have been published in a number
of articles about the project as well as on
EFJ's website, www.nikewages.org.
Previously, Leslie worked for two years as
a Health Care Legal Information Specialist
with the California Medical Association in
San Francisco. Along with her work at CMA,
she taught English to Latino immigrants with
24th Street ESL. Prior to her time in San
Francisco, she served a one-year commitment
with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Anaheim,
CA where she worked as a substance abuse counselor
at Hope House, Inc.
Because of her dedicated activism, in December
2001, Leslie was chosen as a Torchbearer for
the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. In 35 degree
weather, she chose to run barefoot through
the streets of Philadelphia as an act of solidarity
with factory workers globally whose cries
for justice continue to go unrecognized.
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Mike Pierantozzi |
Project
Assistant Mike Pierantozzi is taking
a leave of absence from his position with
the award winning Red Tettemer Agency (Philadelphia,
PA) to film the documentary footage for the
project. Mike brings a wealth of creativity
and marketing experience to the project team.
Mike started his professional career in New
York as an advertising executive for two different
international agencies, Japan's DCA Advertising
and Amsterdam's Anderson & Lembke, where
he worked on the Canon, Japan Airlines and
SAP America accounts. As mentioned above,
Mike is currently employed as a copywriter
with Red Tettmer. He has won the Addy award
for the work he's done on the Yard's Beer
and Sweat Fitness Center accounts.
The unmatched level of creativity that Mike
has shown in his past work and his personal
desire to make a difference through film make
him an excellent choice for this project.
Mike is a 1993 graduate from St. Joseph's
University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree
in English.
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Arist Merdeka Sirat |
Arist
Merdeka Sirat is the Executive Secretary
of SISBIKUM. SISBIKUM is an Indonesian workers'
theater NGO that runs interactive drama events
in industrial areas in and around Jakarta
to raise awareness of workers' rights and
encourage workers to form their own organizations.
SISBIKUM then provides support and assistance
to any workers who decide to take this step.
There is a federation of unions (GSBI) which
formed as a result of these dramatic performances.
Arist, and the staff at SISBIKUM, will provide
invaluable consultation and contacts to make
the experience of the project team as authentic
as possible. They have offered to organize
workers to be interviewed to give testimony
about their lived realities. They have also
agreed to provide housing in their "open
house" for the duration of the project
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Tim Connor |
Tim
Connor has been coordinating the NikeWatch
campaign in Australia www.caa.org.au/campaigns/nike
since 1995. He is responsible for the facilitation
of communication between organizations around
the world interested in Nike's labor practices.
Tim holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University
of Sydney and a J.D. from the University of
New South Wales. The focus of study for his
law degree was codes of conduct and other
forms of corporate self-regulation, particularly
investigating which monitoring systems have
proved effective. At present, he is working
on a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Newcastle
on Corporate Codes of Conduct and protection
of the right to Freedom of Association, taking
Nike as a case study.
He has worked for Community
Aid Abroad/OXFAM Australia as the State Campaign
Coordinator for New South Wales and as the
National Staff Worker for the Australian Student
Christian Movement. For several years he worked
as the Human Rights Project coordinator for
the World Student Christian Federation (Asia/Pacific
region).
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| Jeff Ballinger |
Jeff
Ballinger, founder
and director of Press for Change, has been
the spearhead on this issue for over ten years.
Ballinger has spent countless days in Indonesia
researching the living and working conditions
of Nike’s factory workers. He has also
made efforts at helping them organize to collectively
bargain for better working conditions. He
is considered the foremost expert on Nike’s
labor abuses in Indonesia and is constantly
sought out as a resource on the subject. Given
Ballinger’s personal and professional
commitment to this issue, it is only natural
that Press for Change collaborate on this
project.
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Jeff Lyons |
Jeff
works full time as a web designer and design
consultant. Jeff has participated in volunteer
projects in Philadelphia and Mexico. He has
won two EdPress Awards and was nominated for
three more (EdPress is a national organization
that awards prizes for excellence in educational
publishing). He is the webmaster for this
site and would appreciate any feedback you
have to make this site better. Please send
an email to jeff@nikewages.org.
Mr. Lyons has BA from St. Joseph's University.
He and wife reside in Wynnewood, PA.
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Leily Huzaibah
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Leily
will serve as interpreter/guide for the in-country
project team. Leily Huzaibah is a student
at the State University of Jakarta, with a
concentration in French Language. In her free
time, she is a free lance translator for journalists,
human rights activists and political activist
groups. She is very involved in the student
activist movement in Jakarta.
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