I have devoted the last fourteen years to improving the lives of working people. After graduating from Hampshire College with a BA in legal studies, where I did field work with the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, I became a labor union organizer with the textile workers in the South East. I then spent three years as the communications director for the Marine Division of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Seattle, before heading off to attend law school at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

During law school at Georgetown, I worked as a law clerk at the headquarters of the Service Employees International Union, the International Labor Rights Fund, and with the IUE-CWA. I also did clinical work with the Institute for Public Representation’s Civil Rights Division.

Following law school I went to work representing labor unions and unrepresented employees with one of the most prominent labor law firms in the country, focusing on individual and class action wage and hour litigation, as well as traditional labor union law. From there, I expanded my practice to representing individuals and classes of employees in all areas of employment law, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, wrongful termination, defamation, retaliation, and contract disputes.

I also counsel employers in labor and employment law compliance, with the goal of resolving disputes before they arise and avoiding litigation.