Damon Silvers
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Damon Silvers is an American lawyer and former government employee who serves as a policy director for the AFL-CIO. Silvers led the AFL-CIO legal team that won severance payments for laid off Enron and WorldCom workers.[1] Silvers also served as Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel from 2008 to 2010.[2]
Silvers was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, Philadelphia and Richmond, Virginia. Silvers attended Bellevue Elementary School and Open High School in Richmond, Virginia. Silvers graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1986. Silvers received his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School. He received his M.B.A. with high honors from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. Silvers also studied history at King's College, Cambridge.[3]
He was one of two undergraduates invited by Local 26 of the union which represented Harvard's dining hall staff to join their negotiating team in 1986.[4]