Catherine K. Ruckelshaus
Catherine K. Ruckelshaus is Litigation Director at the National Employment Law Project. Her primary areas of expertise on behalf of low-wage workers are the labor and employment rights of contingent and immigrant workers. Among recent cases, Ms. Ruckelshaus was lead counsel in the class action Ansoumana v. Gristedes Fair Labor Standards Act case, brought on behalf of nearly 1,000 West African immigrant grocery delivery workers against the contracting services who hired them and the stores who employ them. That case netted over $6 million in unpaid wages for the workers. Ms. Ruckelshaus was also lead counsel in the landmark case Lopez v. Silverman, which established for the first time that a garment manufacturer was liable for the sweatshop conditions of its subcontractors. Ms. Ruckelshaus is a graduate of Princeton University (1983) and Stanford Law School (1989).
