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Reid Maki Reid Maki joined the National Consumers League in March 2008. In his work at NCL, Reid will coordinate the activities of the Child Labor Coalition, striving to minimize abusive child labor and to protect the health, safety, and well-being of child workers in the United States and abroad. Reid is a proponent of corporate social responsibility, including fair labor standards for American workers. Prior to joining NCL, Reid worked for 12 years at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP), where he was the communications director and a senior project manager. At AFOP, he fought to keep farmworker service programs alive and he served as the director of the Children in the Fields campaign, a joint effort launched by AFOP, NCL, and the International Initiative to End Child Labor with the goal of ending the legal loopholes in child labor law that permit child agricultural wage laborers to work longer hours and to work at younger ages than children working in other industries. Reid was an active member of the Child Labor Coalition between 1994 and 2006. Reid worked for both daily and weekly newspapers as a reporter earlier in his career. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in American History. He received a Masters Degree from Stanford University in American History. |