Team
Justice at Work’s attorneys, paralegals, trainers, and support staff work out of our Boston office. Our team has decades of experience in the movement for worker rights.
Maudeline Auguste
Community and Legal Partnerships Organizer
Maudeline joined Justice at Work in May 2023. She came to the United States in 2019 with her family from Haiti. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science; and worked for a decade doing IT work for the United Nations. She loves doing community based work, and since arriving to Brockton she has worked for the Brockton Workers Alliance and the Plymouth County Family Resources Center. She joined Justice at Work in order to help people and ensure that she’s always learning something new.
Keally Cieslik
Senior Attorney
Keally Cieslik joined Justice at Work as a Senior Attorney in September 2025. From 2014 to 2016 Keally served as the Director of Community Partnerships at the Rhode Island Center for Justice where she first learned about ways that lawyers can support organizers, tenants, workers, and public utility consumers in their intertwined struggles for justice. After law school Keally practiced immigration law with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Yakima, WA. Before joining Justice at Work Keally spent two years as a staff attorney with Organized Power in Numbers, supporting a tenants’ right to counsel policy campaign in Phoenix, Arizona and supporting efforts to obtain deferred action (DALE) for workers throughout the Southwest. Keally lives in Boston with her wife, Hannah, and their housemates. She loves the public library, sending snail mail, and the infinite promise of worker and tenant organizing.
Alex Galimberti
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Alexandre Galimberti is a food professional turned activist. After ten years working in restaurants, he became an organizer and advocate for workers in the food system. Prior to taking his current role in our team he served for seven years as Senior Advocacy & Collaborations Advisor at Oxfam America. Alex was the founder of the Boston chapter for the Restaurant Opportunities Center – United, where he also worked as National High Road Coordinator. His formal education includes an Associate Degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and a Master of Liberal Arts Degree in Gastronomy from Boston University, with an emphasis on food policy and activism. Alexandre joined the Justice at Work board of directors in 2020 and transitioned to our staff in August of 2023.
Connie Rab
Development and Communications Coordinator
Connie Rab joined Justice at Work in 2021. She is a first generation Taiwanese immigrant. While at UMass Amherst, Connie served on the development team of the East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECAASU), pushing to inspire, educate, and empower those interested in AAPI issues. After graduation, she was the studio manager for an immigrant owned wedding photography company, managing their social media, curating content, and emphasizing the importance of diverse and culturally represented weddings. In both her professional and personal capacity, Connie seeks to be a part of social change through building collective power among communities of color. During her free time, Connie likes to make espresso drinks and expand her energy healing practice.
Thomas Smith
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Thomas Smith launched Justice at Work in 2011 along with co-founder Ingrid Nava. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2008 and is a member of the Massachusetts and Federal bars. After law school, as part of a Skadden Fellowship project, he supported Boston-area immigrant worker centers as an attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services‘ Employment Unit, where he worked under Nava’s guidance and gained deep ties to the region’s worker organizations allowing for the formation of Justice at Work. Tom is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese thanks to extensive work and travel in Latin America and to his work with migrant communities in the United States. He has a background in team sports, teaching and coaching and seeks to incorporate those experiences, along with other learning, including from the Strozzi Institute and the Kripalu Yoga Center, to support a strategic, sustainable model of law and organizing.
Claudia Torres
Staff Attorney
Claudia Torres joined Justice at Work in September 2025. She earned her law degree from CIDE in Mexico City and later pursued both a master’s and doctoral degree at Harvard Law School. Seeking a closer connection between her academic work and solidarity with workers, Claudia became an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Greater Boston Legal Services, where she worked in the Workers’ Rights Unit. There, she represented individual clients in a range of employment law matters, including cases involving sexual discrimination, assault, and labor trafficking, and also assisted with employment-based immigration relief. Claudia is committed to learning from worker leaders and community organizers and to strengthening all kinds of efforts that advance social justice and collective well-being. Outside of work, she enjoys working out, watching anime, and dancing bachata.
