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Ellen Love

  • Program Manager, workplace justice lab@RU
Education

MPP, UC Berkeley

BA, Brown University 

Ellen Love will manage the workplace justice lab@RU’s new project designed to identify and implement strategies that will assist small businesses in adopting fair and equitable employment practices. She also will work with workplace justice lab@RU leadership to expand the community of learning and practice and trainings for practitioners, academics, and other stakeholders. 

Ellen has 10 years of hands-on experience implementing local labor laws with the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement. In three roles with the office, Ellen facilitated outreach on new labor laws, led data collection and analysis, managed contracts with community groups, and conducted investigations. She has also assisted state and local governments with socially responsible public procurement at the Responsible Purchasing Network and supported the start-up of worker-owned businesses with Prospera in Oakland, California. Ellen holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Goldman School at the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Brown University.