Women's Employment Rights Clinic Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Marci Seville
Professor of Law
Director, Women's Employment Rights Clinic
E-mail: mseville@ggu.edu

Hina Shah
Associate Professor of Law and Clinical Staff Attorney
Director, Elfenworks Center for Employment Justice
E-mail: hshah@ggu.edu

Rocio Avila
Graduate Law Fellow
E-mail: ravila@ggu.edu

Rocío Alejandra Avila is the Graduate Law Fellow at WERC, where she is focusing on policy and legal advocacy of domestic worker and caregivers. She is a fluent Spanish speaker. Rocío provides training and technical support to unions, work centers, grass-roots organizing campaigns on issues related to the exploitation of immigrant workers, including federal law work authorization enforcement tools and anti-discrimination laws.

Prior to rejoining WERC, Rocio directed the Workers' Rights Program at La Raza Centro Legal, Inc., in San Francisco, CA. At La Raza, Rocío represented low-wage, predominately Spanish speaking immigrant workers in employment matters, with a focus on wage enforcement, employment discrimination and retaliation issues. She focused her work on impact litigation and administrative advocacy on behalf of domestic worker and day labors. While at La Raza, she developed expertise in combating wage theft for low-wage workers using alternative wage collection methods, including community organizing and advocacy campaigns to redress wage theft in the immigrant community. While at Golden Gate University, Rocio was a clinical student at WERC. Before becoming a lawyer, she was a community organizer in San Francisco, CA's Mission District, where she was born and raised.

Awards: 2011 Lawyer's Committee Impact Litigation Award 2011 La Raza Centro Legal, Inc's Excellence in Advocacy Award 2010 SF Bar Association Mentorship Award GGU Public Interest Academic Excellence Award SF La Raza Lawyer's Fellowship Award




Fe Gonzalez
Clinic Program Assistant
E-mail: fgonzalez@ggu.edu

Fe Gonzalez provides administrative support to both WERC and the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. Fe joined the clinics in 2002, bringing many years of experience as a legal secretary and paralegal.