CELA VOICE CONTRIBUTORS

About Our Guest Bloggers

Our guest bloggers include members of CELA and other employee advocates. Email us if you are interested in guest blogging.

About Elizabeth Kristen

Elizabeth Kristen is the Director of the Gender Equity & LGBT Rights Program and a senior staff attorney at Legal Aid at Work.  Ms. Kristen began her public interest career as a Skadden Fellow at Legal Aid.  Ms. Kristen graduated from University of California at Berkeley School of Law in 2001 and served as a law clerk to the Honorable James R. Browning on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.  In 2012-13, she served as a Harvard law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow.  She has been a lecturer at Berkeley Law School since 2008. Legal Aid at Work together with the California Women’s Law Center and Equal Rights Advocates make up the California Fair Pay Collaborative dedicated to engaging and informing Californians about fair pay issues.

About Ella Hushagen

Ella Hushagen is a member of CELA and an attorney with Teukolsky Law. She graduated cum laude from Occidental College in 2004, and pursued a career in health care access before attending law school. She graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2013 (J.D.), and simultaneously received a Masters Degree in Public Health. In law school, Ms. Hushagen specialized in public interest legal advocacy as a participant in the prestigious Epstein Public Interest Law Program. She met Ms. Teukolsky after her second year of law school while serving as a law clerk at Traber & Voorhees, one of the premier civil rights firms in California. After graduating, Ms. Hushagen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Fernando M. Olguin at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

About Erin Pulaski

Erin Pulaski has been consistently recognized for her advocacy on behalf of employees and executives. From 2015 to 2019, she was named one of the Top Women Attorneys in Northern California by San Francisco Magazine and recognized as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” (a distinction given to no more than 2.5% of lawyers in the state). She has achieved the highest possible rating of “Superb” on Avvo. Erin represents employees and executives in all aspects of employment litigation, including wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wage and hour, and unpaid commission claims. She represents clients in both state and federal court, in arbitration, and through trial and appeals. She also handles confidential prelitigation negotiations on behalf of clients. Read more: https://rezlaw.com/erin-pulaski/

About Hina Shah

Hina B. Shah is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director at the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic (WERC) of Golden Gate University School of Law, addressing employment and labor issues faced by low wage and immigrant workers.

About Lauren Teukolsky

Lauren Teukolsky launched Teukolsky Law in 2017 after practicing law for 17 years at some of California's most prestigious civil rights law firms and organizations. A cum laude graduate of Harvard College (B.A.), Ms. Teukolsky graduated in the top 10 of her class at UCLA School of Law (J.D.), where she was an Articles Editor for the UCLA Law Review and won the law school's Read More https://www.teuklaw.com/lauren-teukolsky.html

About Michael Marsh

Michael Marsh is Directing Attorney of the Salinas office of California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. His practice focuses on working with farmworkers to improve the quality of their working lives.

About Nicolas Orihuela

Nicolas Orihuela is a founding partner of the employment law firm of Hurwitz, Orihuela & Hayes, LLP and has been practicing since 2002. He represents employees in race discrimination, sex harassment, wrongful termination and disability discrimination related cases. He also handles wage and hour cases.

About Nina Baumler

Originally from England, Nina Baumler is a wage and hour attorney in Los Angeles, California. In her solo practice, Ms. Baumler represents low-wage workers in some of the most vulnerable sectors of the workforce, including car-wash workers, janitors, caregivers, restaurant workers, security guards, truck drivers and other low-wage economies. Ms. Baumler regularly co-counsels with non-profit organizations in wage and hour and fraudulent transfer/successor liability cases and is an advisory board member of The Wage Justice Center.

About Sandra Muñoz

Sandra C. Muñoz is the owner of the Law Offices of Sandra C. Muñoz located in East Los Angeles. For over 15 years, Sandra has worked on countless cases involving employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Sandra also has extensive experience in cases involving police abuse. She has also been featured in the Daily Journal, written for the California Business Law magazine, participated on various continuing education panels, and taught legal courses for Dowling College.