Samara Sampson is a 308A journeyperson sheet metal worker and a full-time Organizer with SMART Local 285, the first woman to hold a full-time leadership staff position at the Local and the first woman elected to its Executive Board. She is also the co-founder and Director of Communications of Women on Site, a nonprofit supporting retention, mentorship, and community for women across the trades and construction industry in Canada and the United States.
Within her union, Samara connects the sisters at her home Local and serves as Co-Chair of the SMART International Women's Committee, where she helps locals across North America build women's committees of their own. Her work is grounded in lived experience on the tools and a focus on practical, member-led change.