Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee (she/they) is Co-Director of WorkLife Law at UC Law San Francisco, where she advances legal protections for pregnant and postpartum workers, family caregivers, and pregnant and parenting students. She co-founded WorkLife Law’s Pregnant Scholar initiative and is a nationally recognized expert on laws at the intersection of employment, education, and maternal and infant health. In WorkLife Law’s WIN Challenge plan, she describes training healthcare providers to help patients access workplace accommodations and expanding the organization’s free legal helpline.

Three WIN Projects Target Workplace Conditions Behind Gender Inequality

At the WIN Summit, three of the WIN Challenge’s 18 awardees argued that helping women thrive at work requires changing workplace systems, not just preparing individual workers to manage barriers. The Shift Project is targeting scheduling software that makes shifts unpredictable; WorkLife Law plans to connect pregnant workers with legal protections through healthcare providers; and Affordable Homes of South Texas is making safe job sites a condition of placing women in construction roles.

The Aspen InstituteOct 29, 20264 min read