Jocelyn Samuels
Jocelyn Samuels is Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women's Law Center, where she focuses on barriers to the advancement of women and girls at school and in the workplace. Among her areas of focus, in which she participates in litigation, advocacy, and public education, are non-discrimination in athletics; fair treatment of women and girls in career education programs and non-traditional fields like math and science; equal pat for equal work; and development of fundamental legal principles of equal opportunity. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Samuels was Labor Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. In addition to legal experience in the private sector, she also worked for a decade as a senior policy attorney at the EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission, where she specialized in issues of sex and race discrimination. Ms. Samuels received her law degree from Columbia University and her Bachelor's degree from Middlebury College.
