Jocelyn Frye
Jocelyn Frye is General Counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, DC. She directs the National Partnership's Workplace Fairness Program and, in that capacity, focuses primarily on a wide range of employment and gender discrimination issues, with a particular emphasis on employment barriers facing women of color and low-income women. She participates in a number of civil rights and women's coalitions and serves as the co-chair of the employment task force and the economic security task force for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
Ms. Frye has extensive experience working on issues related to equal employment opportunity and workplace fairness. Her work includes monitoring and analyzing the effectiveness of federal equal employment enforcement efforts, and she has participated in numerous briefings, panels, workshops, and trainings discussing employment discrimination law. She has testified before Congress and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on federal enforcement of employment discrimination laws. Ms. Frye also coordinates the National Partnership's involvement in amicus curiae briefs primarily at the appellate and Supreme Court levels, and its work on judicial nominations.
Ms. Frye received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1985 with a double major in political science and English, and her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. After graduating from law school, she worked as an associate at Crowell & Moring, a Washington, DC law firm, concentrating in the white-collar crime and labor law practice areas.
Ms. Frye is a native of Washington, DC. and is involved in a number of community and volunteer activities. She has served on several boards, including the National Cathedral School for Girls, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, and Greater DC Cares, and has been a volunteer for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. She currently serves on the Board of Deacons of Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, DC.
