Before beginning his legal career, Dan Symonds was a Philadelphia public school teacher and union organizer. He honed the skills needed to effectively fight for the rights of all workers, including union members, workers seeking to unionize, and workers facing exploitation due to immigration status. As an attorney with over a decade of union, community, and electoral organizing experience, Dan is committed to building a more powerful and broad-based labor movement that will fight and win against poverty and an unjust economy.
Dan graduated cum laude from Temple Law School in 2025. He has a B.A. in sociology and history from Swarthmore College and a Master’s in teaching from the University of Pennsylvania.
During law school, Dan worked as a Peggy Browning Fellow with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. He also worked as a deportation defense fellow with Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso and Albuquerque, where he represented asylum seekers in ICE detention facilities. He is a board member of the Philadelphia National Lawyers Guild. Dan received the Conwell Scholarship at Temple and was also a Rubin Presser Social Justice Fellow.
