Meet Women Employed Experts
Need a keynote speaker, source for a news story, or someone to conduct a workshop in your organization? No one is better versed in the issues and policies that impact today’s working women than Women Employed experts.
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Racquel C. Fullman
Communications Coordinator
Phone: (312) 319-2541
Cherita Ellens
President and CEO
Expertise: Pay equity, workforce development, educational success, workplace fairness, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Starr De Los Santos
Associate Director of Coalitions
Expertise: Gender equity, equal pay, higher education access and affordability, paid leave and the subminimum tipped wage, Time to Care, Illinois Full and Fair Wage, and Equal Pay Chicago coalitions.
Mary Kay Devine
Chief of Staff
Expertise: Gender equity, equal pay, salary negotiations, unstable and unpredictable work schedules, educational success, financial aid, advocacy, and social justice activism.
Tara Driver
Senior Career Pathways Manager
Expertise: Career counseling, career navigation, and racial equity in higher education, and employment for adult and English language learners.
Christina Green
ASPIRE Senior Program Manager
Expertise: Developmental education reform, racial equity and inclusion in higher education, and care work.
Ibie Hart
Director of Business Development
Expertise: Entrepreneurship for Black, Latina/x, and women in low-paid roles, sexual harassment, economic security, salary negotiation, and gender equity.
Corinne Kodama
Senior Research Analyst
Expertise: Racial equity in higher education, student loan debt, economic challenges of domestic violence survivors, women over 50, and pay equity.
Sarah Labadie
Director of Advocacy and Policy
Expertise: Financial aid and other policies that help low-income students succeed in college, adult education, career pathways, developmental education, the Monetary Award Program (MAP), online and grassroots activism, paid sick time and paid family and medical leave, minimum wage, and pay equity.
Sharmili Majmudar
Executive Vice President of Policy, Programs, and Research
Expertise: Sexual harassment, gender equity, pregnancy fairness, workplace best practices, employer collaborations, unstable and unpredictable schedules, and social justice activism.
Christina Warden
Director of Policy and Programs
Expertise: Career pathways, strategies that help working and adult students succeed in college, and bridge program development.
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