Terri Gerstein

Senior Fellow

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Areas of expertise
Workers’ rights • Workplace law enforcement

Biography 
Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Center for Labor and a Just Economy, and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. Previously, she was the Labor Bureau chief in the New York State Attorney General’s Office and a deputy commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor. Before her government service, Gerstein was a nonprofit lawyer in Miami, Florida, representing immigrant workers. Her writing on workers’ rights issues has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The American Prospect, NBC News THINK, Teen Vogue, and more. She is a member of the American Law Institute and is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Education
A.B., Harvard College
J.D., Harvard Law School