IRLE Media Kit

UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) advances labor research and education for workplace justice. Through the work of its units – the UCLA Labor Center, the Human Resources Roundtable, the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program (LOSH) and its academic program, UCLA Labor Studies – the Institute forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.

Media Interviews

IRLE’s communications team provides strategic communications support for the Institute, its units and its academic program. Working with both internal and external audiences, our team helps amplify IRLE’s story and the impact of its programs on workers, the general public and our campus community. 

Every day, our experts engage with local, regional, national and international print and digital news media on timely labor topics and analysis. Our communications staff generates media coverage of IRLE’s people, programs, events and activities. 

In addition to its public information and media relations functions, our staff maintains IRLE’s social media channels, manages IRLE’s site, creates digital and print marketing materials and produces a variety of multimedia content. 

If you’re looking for a labor expert to comment on labor topics, please contact our communications staff listed below. Please include your deadline, as well as your preferred interview method (e.g., phone, Zoom, Skype, other video platforms, in-person, email).

Media Contacts

  • For general IRLE and UCLA Labor Studies inquiries, reach out to IRLE’s communications specialist, Willa Needham, – willaneedham@g.ucla.edu
  • For the UCLA Labor Center, a unit of the IRLE, contact Emily Jo Wharry, emilyjowharry@g.ucla.edu. More Labor Center media information, here.  

IRLE Communication Staff 

Willa Needham
IRLE Communications Specialist
willaneedham@ucla.edu

Marcos Ruiz Rojas
Labor Studies Communications Specialist
marcosruiz1999@ucla.edu

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