Jory Steele

Jory Steele is a Project Attorney for the Racial Equality Program at the Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center. Jory first joined the LAS-ELC in 1999, when she held a 1999-2001 Skadden Fellowship to address issues affecting women working in the trades. Her current work focuses on race and gender discrimination, with an emphasis on utilizing social science research to create new strategies for civil rights litigation. Previously, she was extern for the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York and worked at the Child Advocacy Clinic in New York. Jory earned her J.D. and M.I.A. in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University in 1999, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as Submissions Editor for the Human Rights Law Review, and her B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University in 1993. She has received numerous international fellowships, including a 1993 Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa, where she studied the effects of apartheid on higher education. She is a member of the California Bar.

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