Grace Bogdanove

1199SEIU WNY Nursing Home Division Vice President Grace Bogdanove first became exposed to organized labor as a High Road fellow with the WNY ALF, AFL-CIO while an undergraduate student at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Throughout her two years of work with the WNY ALF, Bogdanove became committed to the movement and after graduating Cornell and organizing for a brief time with the Pennsylvania State Education Association, she found her way to 1199SEIU - the union she admired most throughout her time with the WNY ALF. As an 1199SEIU Administrative Organizer in Syracuse, Bogdanove represented workers in six nursing home facilities, and in 2020 she accepted a position as Vice President of 1199SEIU’s North Country region. The following year, Bogdanove made her way back to WNY as Vice President of 1199SEIU’s WNY Nursing Home Division. In this role, Bogdanove represents several thousand nursing home workers in WNY, focusing on member organizing, comprehensive contract campaigns, and social justice unionism that will improve the lives of healthcare workers and the communities in which they live.