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 Dr. Donna Gross McDaniel
Dr. McDaniel serves as the Laborers’ International Union of North America’s Assistant Director of their Minority Advancement Department at their International Headquarters in Washington, D.C. In this capacity she serves as a liaison to foster communication between the International Union, its leadership and their member driven minority caucuses, internal departments, Tri-Funds, and various external constituency groups. She also assists the Department in identifying, promoting, and supporting issues of concern specific but not limited to their ethnic and gender diverse members. A former Program Administrator at the Laborers’ Education and Training Fund, she was responsible for grant development, and implementation and administration of worker education programs that worked with their affiliated training funds, community groups, and colleges and universities to target specific audiences. Administering the Laborers Minority Worker Training and Brownfields Worker Training Programs, Dr. McDaniel worked collaboratively with stakeholders to meet the specific training needs of youth, women and people of color living specifically in and around environmentally impacted communities. Serving eleven urban communities during her six year tenure with Laborers’ Education and Training Fund, the programs trained over 600 Minority Worker trainees and 200 Brownfields trainees. Program retention rates and most important, employment rates were over 80% for all programs and significantly changed the quality of life for many of the trainees.
An educator, Dr. McDaniel has facilitated various workshops for LIUNA around such topics as Cultural Diversity, Building Cultural Competency in the Workplace, Coalition Building, Community Activism, Individualizing Instruction, The Workforce Investment Act, Career Paths for Laborers, Grant Writing and Administration and a host of other related presentations. Dr. McDaniel received her Bachelor’s Degree from Louisiana State University, Master Degrees in Education and Administration from Xavier University of New Orleans, and her Doctoral Degree in Educational Leadership from Howard University in Washington, DC.
Professionally, Dr. McDaniel has been active on several committees directly related to her career efforts. She has served on the NIEHS Worker Education and Training Advisory Committee. The committee gives guidance, direction to strategic planning strategies and advice to all NIEHS worker-training programs. She has also been a member of the Waste and Facility Siting Sub-Committee of EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), a federally designated advisory committee to the EPA. She has also represented LIUNA on the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department Apprenticeship Committee. Dr. McDaniel has also worked directly with the Department of Labor, on a committee designed to give input to the agency’s On the Job Training Initiative and currently on a committee to review the Department’s regulatory agenda for federal contracting as it relates to minorities and women.
Dr. McDaniel is also active in the community. As member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and on the board of the local Red Cross she has been active on several community service committees. She is also a member of her local union constituency group chapters - A. Phillip Randolph Institute, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. Dr. McDaniel has also been active in Jack and Jill, Inc., an organization dedicated to instilling community service and leadership skills to youth. She has also served as a mentor to high school students in Connecticut and a tutor in both Alexandria and Orleans Public Schools.
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