BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Commerce Corporation Board Member

Pat Crowley is a union organizer with over 25 years of service in the labor movement. During that time, he has worked for the Teamsters, SEIU, NEA Rhode Island. He currently is the elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, representing 80,000 working women and men across Rhode Island. Pat holds master’s degrees in labor studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in History from the University of Rhode Island. In 2021, Pat helped found Climate Jobs Rhode Island, a broad and growing coalition of labor, environmental, and community partners committed to a just transition to an equitable, pro-worker, pro-climate green economy. He also serves on the boards of several organizations, the Institute for Labor Studies and Research, the United Way of Rhode Island’s Community Advisory Board, the Rhode Island Center for Justice, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and the Museum of Work and Culture Foundation. In 2021, Pat published an essay in the scholarly journal “Rhode Island History” about workers organizing against racial discrimination in the workplace in Providence during WW2 and in 2022 published a book titled The Battle of the Gravestones and the Saylesville Massacre of 1934 about the 1934 general textile strike. In 2024 he will have a chapter in the forthcoming book published by The New Press called Power Lines Building a Labor–Climate Justice Movement.

A member of the AMC’s 4000 footers club, Pat enjoys hiking throughout New England, especially in Rhode Island’s own Lincoln Woods, of which he published an interactive map, found at ExploreLincolnWoods.Com. A father of three adult children, Pat lives in Saylesville, Rhode Island, with his wife Karen.