Alyssa Goodstein is the communications director for the Illinois AFL-CIO, where she leads strategic communications and public affairs for the third-largest state labor federation in the country. A native of Los Angeles, Goodstein received her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and came to Illinois on a scholarship to pursue her graduate degree at the University of Chicago, where she studied the informal labor networks of female street food vendors in 20th-century Mexico. Prior to the Illinois AFL-CIO, Goodstein served a two-year term as the LGBTQ+ caucus director for the Young Democrats of Illinois.