Janet Chung

Janet Chung is Legal and Legislative Counsel at Legal Voice, a Seattle-based non-profit organization that works to advance the legal rights of women and girls in the Pacific Northwest. Her work includes advancing reproductive health care and justice, expanding economic justice for women, and combating gender discrimination in the workplace and in schools.

Ms. Chung’s advocacy for women covers a range of issues, including religious and conscience-based refusals of health care; insurance coverage for comprehensive reproductive health care; paid sick and safe days; gender wage equity; and Title IX. She has successfully litigated cases to ensure access to courts for indigent litigants; to protect women from criminal prosecution for obtaining medication abortions; to remedy adverse treatment of domestic violence and sexual assault victims in the workplace and on campuses; and to address gender stereotyping of workers with family caregiving responsibilities.

As a first-generation Korean-American, she got her first taste for American politics—and girl power—as a Girls State participant in Texas, where she grew up. A graduate of Yale College and Columbia University School of Law and a former Georgetown University Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellow, Ms. Chung has decades of experience as a litigator and policy advocate in both the private and nonprofit sectors. She is a frequent speaker on reproductive health care, women’s workplace rights, campus sexual harassment and assault. Ms. Chung is a Ford Foundation Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project.