Ms. Jenny R. Yang is a partner with Outten & Golden, where she represents workers in high-impact workers’ rights class actions and advises state and local governments on employment matters through the firm’s government representation practice.
She previously served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to President Biden for Racial Justice and Equity, helping shape national policy on civil rights and economic opportunity, and before that as Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs at the U.S. Department of Labor, where she led enforcement of equal opportunity requirements for federal contractors.
Ms. Yang also served as Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Obama Administration, leading a bipartisan agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s workplace civil rights laws.
She began her career as a civil rights litigator in the Employment Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and later spent over a decade representing workers in complex class actions in private practice, building a practice focused on systemic workplace discrimination. She earned a B.A. in Government from Cornell University and a J.D. from NYU School of Law.
