Kevin Pranis is a Marketing Manager for the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) responsible for overseeing LIUNA’s growth programs in Minnesota and North Dakota. Kevin represents LIUNA in energy and utility cases before public utility commissions in Minnesota and North Dakota, and leads the union’s legislative and regulatory efforts on clean energy, clean fuels and infrastructure development. Kevin chairs Minnesota's Clean Transportation Standard Working Group, and serves on Governor Tim Walz's Advisory Council on Climate Change and the board of the Workers' Confluence Fund.

Before moving back home to Minnesota from Washington D.C, Kevin served as a Campaign Director for LIUNA and Research Director for the Change to Win labor federation. In those roles, Kevin helped to manage research and organizing programs focused on transportation and water and energy infrastructure, and he participated in the development of Federal apprenticeship standards for green residential construction.  

Before joining the labor movement, Kevin spent 10 years in the criminal justice field, developing and leading issue-based campaigns and research initiatives. In that capacity, he co-founded two New York City-based non-profit organizations and was a recipient of a Soros Justice Fellowship and Union Square Award.