HeeWon Brindle-Khym (she/her) is the Director of Research at Jobs to Move America.
For over two decades, HeeWon has worked at the intersection of labor rights, corporate accountability, and global supply chains. Before joining JMA, she served as Director of Research and Global Strategies at the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU/UFCW), where she developed corporate campaigns and coordinated international leverage strategies to support frontline organizing and bargaining. Her earlier work includes senior roles at the Fair Labor Association, UNITE HERE, and the Worker Rights Consortium, where she built coalitions with labor and civil society partners to expose labor abuses and win improvements in working conditions across sectors.
HeeWon’s work has been grounded in coalition-building with unions and civil society, and she has served on numerous boards, including the NYC Industrial Development Agency, the Public Utility Law Project of New York, and global union federations such as UNI Global and IUF. HeeWon holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and a B.S. from Boston College.