I was inspired to become a lawyer after interning at the Center for Constitutional Rights and community organizing to combat hate crimes in Jersey City. In my early career I was trained in client best practices by mission-driven organizations that provide tireless and quality free legal services to New Yorkers whose rights have been violated. It is from this orientation that, for almost 15 years, I have been pursuing restitution, restoration and repair on behalf of employees whose lives are radically disrupted by encountering discrimination in the workplace based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disabilty, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age, or an intersectional combination of these categories.

Since the pandemic I have also been actively serving as a neutral in federal court and the EEOC, helping parties in conflict to achieve their goals, including settling their legal claims. For two decades I have also taught legal skills, litigation practice and anti-discrimination law at multiple New York metro-area law schools, while also developing legal programming for lawyers on employment law topics in my role as Chair of the continuing legal education committee for the New York branch of the National Employment Lawyer’s Association and on the Labor and Employment Section of the American Bar Association. I graduated from Barnard College with a major in political science and attended Northeastern University School of Law, one of the top public interest law schools in the country.