Staff List
Rebecca Andruszka, Development Director
Bukola Ashaolu, Information Technology Systems Manager
Annette Bernhardt, Policy Co-Director (on leave as Russell Sage Fellow through 6/2012)
Areas of expertise: Labor Market Research • Enforcement of Workplace Standards • Immigrants and Work • Economic and Workforce Development
Deborah Buchanan-Taylor, Senior Office and Database Administrator
Anastasia Christman, Senior Policy Analyst
Judy Conti, Federal Advocacy Coordinator
Areas of expertise: Unemployment Insurance • Criminal Records and Employment • Enforcement of Workplace Standards • Civil Rights
Rebecca Dixon, Policy Analyst
Areas of expertise: Unemployment Insurance
Maurice Emsellem, Policy Co-Director
Areas of expertise: Criminal Records and Employment • Unemployment Insurance
Norman Eng, Communications Director
Michael Evangelist, Policy Analyst
Areas of expertise: Unemployment Insurance • Economic and Workforce Development
Tsedeye Gebreselassie, Staff Attorney
Areas of expertise: Living Wage and Minimum Wage • Immigrants and Work
Mitchell Hirsch, Web and Campaign Associate
Areas of expertise: Unemployment Insurance
Eunice Hyunhye Cho, Skadden Fellow
Areas of expertise
Immigrants and Work • Enforcement of Workplace Standards
Jen Kern, Minimum Wage Campaign Coordinator
Areas of expertise: Minimum Wage and Living Wage • Campaign Assistance
Patricia J. Kozu, Managing Director, Finance & Administration
Sarah Leberstein, Staff Attorney
Areas of expertise: Care Giving Workforce • Enforcement of Workplace Standards • Nonstandard Workforce • Wage and Hour Protections
Rick McHugh, Staff Attorney & Midwest Coordinator
Areas of expertise: Dislocated Worker Programs (Trade Adjustment Assistance) • Unemployment Insurance • Minimum Wage and Living Wage
Claire McKenna, Policy Analyst
Areas of expertise: Unemployment Insurance
Manny Mercado, Senior Finance & Administrative Specialist
Lynn Minick, Workforce Development Specialist
Areas of expertise: Economic and Workforce Development • Rapid Response and Economic Dislocation Services
Michelle Natividad Rodriguez, Staff Attorney
Areas of expertise: Criminal Records and Employment
Madeline Neighly, Staff Attorney
Areas of expertise: Criminal Records and Employment
Christine L. Owens, Executive Director
Areas of expertise: Living Wage & Minimum Wage • Labor Market Research • Workplace Equity
Lorene Randall, Dislocated Worker Facilitator
Areas of expertise: Economic and Workforce Development
Christine Riordan, Policy Associate
Areas of expertise: Labor Market Research • Unemployment Insurance
Catherine Ruckelshaus, Legal Co-Director
Areas of expertise: Immigrants and Work • Enforcement of Workplace Standards • Nonstandard Workforce • Wage and Hour Protections
Steffan Samlal, IT Assistant
Alona Sistrunk, Communications & Development Associate
Rebecca Smith, Coordinator, Immigrant Worker Justice Project
Areas of expertise: International Human and Labor Rights • Immigrants and Work • Enforcement of Workplace Standards • Unemployment Insurance
Paul Sonn, Legal Co-Director
Areas of expertise: Minimum Wage and Living Wage • Economic and Workforce Development
Anne Thompson, Policy Analyst
Area of expertise: Living and Minimum Wages
Lindsay Webb, TAA Coordinator
Areas of expertise: Trade Adjustment Assistance • Dislocated Worker Programs
George Wentworth, Senior Staff Attorney
Areas of expertise: Unemployment Insurance • Enforcement of Workplace Standards
Haeyoung Yoon, Staff Attorney
Areas of expertise: Immigrants and Work • Wage and Hour Protections • Enforcement of Workplace Standards