Rethink Trade was established to intensify analysis and advocacy regarding the myriad ways that today’s trade agreements and policies must be altered to undo decades of corporate capture and to deliver on broad national interests. This includes resilient supply chains and fair markets, the creation and support of good jobs with workers empowered to earn decent wages, public health and safety delivered by strong consumer and environmental protections and the ability for those who will live with the results to decide the policies affecting their lives.
Rethink Trade builds synergies between trade justice and anti-monopoly work to create and implement policies that can harvest the benefits of trade and promote healthy economies and local businesses without undermining our democracy, livelihoods and labor rights, health, or environment.
Rethink Trade is a division of the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP). AELP, a non-profit research and advocacy organization, is a thought leader in the anti-monopoly movement and promotes policy changes to address today’s crisis of concentrated economic power.
Lori is the director of the Rethink Trade program at AELP and a 30-year veteran of international and U.S. congressional trade battles starting with the 1990s fights over NAFTA and WTO. She is also Senior Advisor to the CTC.
Daniel specializes in international trade and investment law and policy and he is an expert in trade and labor matters. He was one of the lawyers that drafted the first stakeholder petition to activate the USMCA rapid response mechanism.
Katie Hettinga recently graduated from the University of Idaho with degrees in Political Science and Agricultural Economics, where she was a legislative scholar for the McClure Public Policy Research Center.
Jess has more than a decade experience of working in politics, and holds graduate degrees in Global Security and Intelligence.
Abbie is currently a 2nd year J.D. candidate at Georgetown University Law Center pursuing a career in private international law. I have a Master’s in International Relations from I.E. University in Madrid.
