Cathleen Caron, the founder and Executive Director, is an attorney with over a decade of human rights experience in the United States and abroad. Previously, she was in East Timor, to conduct a national needs assessment of the human trafficking situation for the Alola Foundation, chaired by East Timor’s First Lady. The final report is the first published paper on the situation of human trafficking in East Timor and serves as the basis for that country’s current national initiatives. Additionally, Cathleen has successfully litigated complex class action employment cases on behalf of foreign migrant farmworkers as a staff attorney in Florida with the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project. Before entering law school, she worked in Guatemala for over three years where she assisted Guatemalan lawyers in domestic human rights litigation, researched the needs of internally displaced persons in urban squatter settlements, and directed a regional indigenous rights program for the United Nations mission. She has also consulted with Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative on labor migration issues. Cathleen graduated summa cum laude from the American University Washington College of Law where she was awarded the Outstanding Law Graduate Award and the Peter Cicchino Award for Outstanding Public Advocacy. She completed her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College.
Kate D'Adamo, program assistant, is a recent college graduate with a year of administrative experience. She received a BA in political science from California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo in 2006. She has spent the last year in San Francisco at the law firm of Selman Breitman as a file clerk. While in college she completed a senior project on mental illness on the prison population. In addition, she served as a resident adviser, working largely on increasing community service and student involvement with a special focus on a partnership between the dorms and the Special Olympics.
Griselda Vega is an attorney with seven years of experience representing low-income Latino clients in general civil litigation matters. For over five years, she represented farm worker clients primarily on employment, civil rights, class action litigation, as well as, consumer rights in state and federal court with Columbia Legal Services (CLS) in Washington State. While at CLS, Griselda also undertook legislative and administrative advocacy, working on the first ever Cholinesterase Medical Monitoring program in the country for pesticide workers, as well as conducted community education to migrants through one-on-one outreach, presentations, radio and other media outlets. Griselda also worked for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, focusing on family and housing law. Prior to attending law school, she worked as an Assistant Development Director for the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago. She is licensed in both Illinois and Washington State. She has been actively involved in the American Bar Association and the Young Lawyer’s Division since 2002, holding a number of leadership positions. Ms. Vega graduated from the University of Iowa-College of Law.
Global Workers wishes to thank the following individuals for their support.
Elizabeth Rosemeyer - for serving as the inaugural Managing Director.
Matt Rosemeyer – for designing the first website.
Lauren Knopf - for serving as the initial development director.
Melanie Norden - for serving as our development director.
Mia Carlvik – for designing and maintaining the current website.
Jonathan Imphong – for designing the Global Workers logo.
Allison Milan – for translation support.
Nan Schivone for authoring the conpretensive manual, 'Defending the Rights of Translational Migrant Workers in the United States', used as the basis to train the Global Workers Defenders Network.
Students from Barnard College, Brooklyn Law School, Dartmouth College, Fordham University, Harvard University, New York Law School, Villanova University, New York University, and Rudgers School of Law.
Law Firms - Blank Rome LLP, Pepper Hamilton LLC, and Stroock & Stroock, & Lavan LLP.
And the countless other individuals who continue to provide advice and/or financial support.
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