RoseAnn DeMoro

RoseAnn DeMoro is the executive director of National Nurses United and of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. DeMoro also serves as national vice president and executive board member of the AFL-CIO.

DeMoro was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood. She earning a degree in women's studies from Southern Illinois University. After college, the family moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she began to work on a PhD in sociology. During that time, she worked as an organizer for the American Federation of Teachers and the University of California clerical workers. She gave up her studies to work for the Teamsters as the first female organizer for the Western Conference of Teamsters. DeMoro later described the sexism she experienced at the Teamsters as "intolerable," and in 1986, she took a collective bargaining position at the California Nurses Association.

DeMoro married her high school boyfriend, Don DeMoro, in 1978. They have two children.

DeMoro is the executive director of National Nurses United, the largest professional and labor organization of registered nurses in the United States. De Moro is also the executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

DeMoro has profiled in The New York Times,Wall Street Journal,Los Angeles Times,San Francisco Chronicle,Business Week, and the Chicago Tribune, DeMoro has also appeared on a number of national and California news programs, including Bill Moyers Journal, CBS' 60 Minutes, PBS' Now, and the Lehrer News Hour.

DeMoro has been named "America's Best & Brightest" by Esquire magazine, dubbed "The Most Influential Woman You've Never Heard Of" by More magazine, honored as among "America's Most Influential Women" by MSN, and one of only eight people to be cited among the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" for 14 consecutive years by Modern Healthcare magazine.

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