Ed Sills is director of communications for the Texas AFL-CIO, a 230,000-member federation of Texas labor unions. The Texas AFL-CIO represents working people in the legislative and political arenas, participating also in a variety of community service programs.

SillSills sat on the board of United Ways of Texas and is a member of the Texas Youth Commission Prison Industries Advisory Committee. He tutors children at North Oaks Elementary School in the Round Rock School District, manages a DestiNation ImagiNation team and was named that school's 2000 and 2004 "Mentor of the Year" and 2006 “Volunteer of the Year”.

Valedictorian of his high school class in Long Beach, N.Y., Sills holds a B.A. "with distinction in all subjects" from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and a J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he was business manager of the Cornell Law Review. He also served as associate editor (oversight of editorial page) at The Cornell Daily Sun. He has a license to practice law in New York State, but has never practiced for pay.

Instead, Sills embarked on a career at the now-defunct San Antonio Light, where he covered night police, federal courts and, for nine years, served as Austin bureau chief. During that time, Sills was a member of the Newspaper Guild, now part of the Communications Workers of America. In 1994, after the Light's demise and several months of free-lance work, including a stint covering the 1993 legislative session with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sills began his career in organized labor.

Sills is married to Enedelia Obregón. They are the parents of two children, Alejandro, 15, and Graciela, 10.