Jocelyn Samuels
National Women's Law Center

Jocelyn Samuels is Vice President and Director of Educational Opportunitiesat the National Women's Law Center, where she supervises an active litigation docket of Title IX cases, including cases seeking equal athletic opportunities for girls. She spearheads the Center's efforts to ensure that young women are treated fairly in career education programs, and challenges biased testing that restricts opportunities for female students as well as policies and practices that block women's access to non-traditional courses such as math and science. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Samuels was Labor Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. She also worked for a decade as a senior policy attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she specialized in issues of sex and race discrimination. Ms. Samuels received her law degree from Columbia University, and her Bachelor's degree from Middlebury College