Jenny r yang biography husband

Jenny R. Department of Labor in the Biden administration. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the Obama administration.

Yang and her husband, Kil Huh, director of the States' Fiscal Health Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts, have two sons.

As a government official, Yang has prioritized left-of-center employment policy. Yang worked to expand employment protections for members of the LGBT community, to close the alleged gender and racial wage gaps, and to promote diversity trainings associated with critical race theory. From to , she was a partner at the law firm of Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll, representing workers in civil rights and collective action lawsuits.

In the Obama administration , Yang worked for the U. While at the EEOC, Yang created a special task force which studied harassment and pay discrepancies between races and genders in an effort to decrease the alleged gaps. Yang also made addressing systemic racism, along with race and gender representation in hiring, a priority. Yang has stated that she wants to make diversity training a focus for employees under government contracts, including discussions on topics such as so-called white privilege.

Yang has emphasized the impact that federal contractors have on race relations and has sought to use her position to promote left-progressive ideas. Yang is a senior fellow at the left-of- center Urban Institute. With the Urban Institute, Yang performs research that supports her advocacy for social programs for ethnic minorities and women to achieve equal outcomes in employment.

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Yang also advocates for policy that would require increased benefits for contracted workers with an emphasis on racial and gender status. Yang is also an Open Society Foundations leadership in government fellow. Yang is listed by Demand Justice , a project of the left-of-center Sixteen Thirty Fund , on its shortlist of preferred Supreme Court nominees.