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Liz Chacko

Liz Chacko

Adjunct Professor of Law

Liz Maria Chacko is Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, where she works with the Legal Network for Gender Equity and the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund to advance gender equity in the workplace. Prior to joining the National Women’s Law Center, Ms. Chacko spent many years providing direct services to immigrant and migrant workers at non-profit legal aid organizations, including over 15 years at Justice at Work (Pennsylvania), where she represented employees on a variety of employment and immigration related matters; engaged in state-wide advocacy and worker engagement; and later, supervised all program staff and helped lead the organization as Deputy Director.

Ms. Chacko began her career as a family law attorney representing immigrant survivors of interpersonal violence and has spent much of her legal career since then representing survivors of domestic violence, sex harassment, and unlawful discrimination. She advocates for client-centered and trauma-informed models of legal representation. Ms. Chacko received her law degree from Boston College, where she was an editor on the Journal of Law and Social Justice and her undergraduate degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from New York University.