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...Emma S. Mackinnon ’05 is not afraid of standing out in a crowd. Since the fall of her freshman year, Mackinnon has taken her passion for service workers’ rights at Harvard from the bargaining table to the asphalt outside of Massachusetts Hall, lighting fires under the proverbial seats of Harvard’s most influential decision-makers...
...surprisingly modest—sitting in the Adams dining hall, soggy from a late-day downpour, Mackinnon is unpretentious about her role as an activist...
...Coming to Harvard as a place of extreme privilege and entitlement was hard to reconcile,” says Mackinnon, a Brooklyn native. Inspired by the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) living wage sit-in the spring before her matriculation, Mackinnon was eager to get involved early...
...jumped right into PSLM as a freshman,” says Mackinnon. Although the group had a non-hierarchical structure, Mackinnon became what is known as a “bottom-liner”—one of the most active and vocal members of the group. She knocked on almost every single freshman door before University President Lawrence H. Summers’ inauguration, urging them to hang living wage signs in their yard-facing windows...
Just weeks later, Mackinnon got her moment in the limelight. On November 30, PSLM organized a 600-person rally outside the Science Center, “Justice for Janitors.” And Mackinnon...