Amanda Ballantyne

Director, AFL-CIO Technology Institute and Working for America Institute

Amanda Ballantyne serves as the director of the AFL-CIO Technology Institute and director of the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute.

Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, she was executive director of the Main Street Alliance, a national network of small business owners working to provide small businesses a voice on pressing public policy issues. She brings nearly 20 years of progressive organizing, policy and legal experience in unions and nongovernmental organizations. Ballantyne graduated from Smith College and earned her law degree from the University of Washington School of Law.