Jessica Ramey Stender

You want to get to know her because:

• Jessica leads ERA’s state and federal policy advocacy with a focus on pay equity, harassment, discrimination, and other civil rights. She also represents workers in employment discrimination and pay equity cases.
• Jessica co-chairs the Stronger California Women’s Agenda, a statewide network of organizations advancing policy reform to improve the economic security of women and families.
• She also co-chairs: the Women’s Rights Committee of the American Bar Association’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Section; and the Policy Committees of the National Taskforce on Tradeswomen’s Issues, and the national Equal Pay Today campaign. She serves on the California Women Lawyers Board of Governors.
• Jessica was named one of the Top Labor & Employment Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal. She regularly speaks and writes about issues related to equal pay, harassment, and gender equity, including in The New York Times, Fortune, Axios, Ms. Magazine, The 19^th, Rolling Stone, Law 360, Bloomberg Law, Univision, and Telemundo.
• She previously served as Legal Director of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (Center for Migrant Rights), a transnational migrant workers’ rights organization and was a civil rights attorney at Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho, where she represented workers in civil rights and employment class action cases.
• Before law school, Jessica worked as a paralegal at Friends of Farmworkers in Philadelphia, providing legal assistance to migrant farmworkers throughout Pennsylvania.

Alumna of:

• U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 2009, where she served as Senior Executive Editor of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law and Co-Chair of the Boalt Hall Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild

Outside of work:

• Jessica is a dedicated yoga practitioner.

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