Vail Kohnert-Yount

Vail Kohnert-Yount is the Assistant Director of UAW Region 9A, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

She joined UAW Local 2320, the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, as a workers’ rights lawyer at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid in Brownsville, where she represented low-wage workers fighting wage theft, sexual harassment, and other workplace exploitation. As an NOLSW member, she served as a steward and convention delegate and was elected to NOLSW’s national executive board as a regional vice president.

She first joined the UAW as a student worker in law school, after organizing to win the election to form UAW Local 5118, the Harvard Graduate Students Union. She is proud to follow in the footsteps of her family who are members of UAW Local 598 in Flint, Michigan, home of the UAW sit-down strikers.