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Saru Jayaraman
Co-Director
Phone: (212) 243-6900
Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC-U)
275 Seventh Avenue
23rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
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Type of Asset Work
Policy advocate/policymaker, Community Practitioner, Researcher, Other
Area(s) of Expertise
Business/microenterprise, Wealth Disparities, Workforce development/access to good jobs
Specific Population Focus
African Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Immigrants, Latinos/Hispanics, Native Americans, Special Population Focus
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Selected Asset Publications (1)
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Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC-United), a national restaurant workers' organization, and an Assistant Professor of Public Law in the Political Science at Brooklyn College. In 1992 she founded Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (W.Y.S.E.), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing young women of color with the resources, information and support necessary to think critically and take leadership in their communities for change. As Attorney/Organizer at the Workplace Project, a Latina/o immigrant worker organizing center, she created The Alliance for Justice, a law and organizing program that organized custodial, factory, and restaurant workers to fight for workplace justice. After 9/11, together with workers from Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center, she co-founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), which has organized restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns, conduct research and policy work in the restaurant industry, and launch their own cooperatively-owned restaurant. Ms. Jayaraman co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce, (ME Sharpe, 2005). She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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