Sergio is the 2026-27 Democratic Resilience Fellow funded by the Freedom Together Foundation.

Sergio Saravia (he/him) is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Sociology at Syracuse University. His dissertation, “Union-led Workers’ Political Education and Labor Movement Union Revitalization in the US,” examines why union-led workers’ education has faded from serious debates about labor union revitalization and how strategies to revitalize the labor movement have weakened workers’ political education programs. It seeks to contribute to debates on union revitalization by highlighting the often-overlooked role of labor and union-led workers’ education. It also considers how the production and dissemination of ideas help workers make sense of the labor movement’s present crises, given that unions are sites of critical adult education, knowledge production, and grassroots discussions about resistance and the reshaping of society from the ground up.

Sergio holds a bachelor’s degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a master’s degree in Labor and Global Workers’ Rights from the Pennsylvania State University.