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March 2017
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REQUEST: Updating/Expanding Sara Horowitz's page
Hello - we are in the process of updating our Wikipedia pages and request for approval of an update to Sara Horowitz's biographical page. Below are the changes/additions. Please review and let me know if this is possible. All links have been verified and are third-party. Please let me know if there are any issues or questions with these changes as well. Thank you in advance. Mark Snyder, Freelancers Union. 718-532-1507

Sara Horowitz has been an innovative leading voice of the growing freelance economy, creating solutions for the new workforce for over two decades. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Freelancers Union, which is building a new form of unionism for its more than 350,000 members nationwide through creative, cooperative, market-based solutions to pressing social problems.

Sara recognized early on the vital role independent workers would play in our networked, interconnected world. In 2003, she used her experience as a union organizer to found the nonprofit Freelancers Union, which promotes the needs of the independent workforce through advocacy, education and serving the needs of the freelancers. Today, 55 million Americans are independent workers (about one-third of the entire workforce).

Sara is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, NY.

Education & Early Career
Horowitz graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations with a B.A. degree in 1984 and was awarded its labor prize. She graduated cum laude from the University at Buffalo Law School. After graduation, she worked as a public defender, a private practice labor attorney, and an organizer with SEIU 1199, the National Health and Human Service Employees Union. She later attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received her MPA in 1995. She was admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1995.

Accomplishments
In 2008, Sara launched Freelancers Insurance Company, the first portable benefits model for freelance and 919 workers, wholly owned by the union providing independent workers with high-quality, affordable, and portable health insurance. The union’s National Benefits Platform, launched in 2014, helps freelancers across America access benefits, including retirement, life, liability, dental and disability insurance.

Sara is currently the Chair of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship , was recognized as one of the World Economic Forum’s 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow , and was selected as one of the 2015 “POLITICO 50,” the magazine’s marquee annual list of thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics. She is also on the board of Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation.

The daughter of a labor lawyer and granddaughter of a former vice president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, she is also the recipient of the Eugene V. Debs Award for her contribution in building the labor movement for gig workers.