Amy Carroll

Amy Carroll
Chief of Staff
Economic Justice, Gender Equality

Amy is part of CPD’s management team, and directly supervises CPD’s policy, strategic research, and legal compliance teams. Her work focuses in particular on economic justice policy support, including driving policy innovation that facilitates low-wage worker organizing and lifting labor standards, as well as advocacy on fair & affordable housing and financial sector accountability issues. She served as the primary drafter of New York State’s Wage Theft Prevention Act, a comprehensive overhaul of New York’s minimum wage and overtime laws which took effect in April 2011, after a record-setting nine-month campaign. Amy has worked on a range of policy campaigns, including to pass paid sick time legislation, regulate “big box” retailers, improve the operation of the state agencies that enforce minimum wage and rent stabilization laws, and to expand funding for legal services for the working poor.  Prior to helping launch CPD in April 2012, Amy worked for more than four years with Make the Road New York, where she served first as the Supervising Attorney and then as Legal Director. Amy has previously clerked for a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York and worked as an Equal Justice America fellow with the Workplace Justice Project at MFY Legal Services. Before law school, Amy ran the Public Service Network at the New York City Bar Association. Amy is a graduate of the Yale Law School and the University of Michigan’s Residential College.


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