ERA Project Welcomes Naomi Young
The ERA Project is delighted to welcome Naomi Young as our new Policy Associate!
Naomi Mo Chee Young joins the ERA Project from Her Justice, a not-for-profit organization providing legal representation to women living in poverty in New York City, where she began as an Equal Justice Works Fellow and then as Senior Staff Attorney. As an EJW Fellow, Naomi launched the Marital Debt Project, which tackles matrimonial and consumer debt matters. As a Senior Staff Attorney at Her Justice, Naomi managed the Financial Freedom Project, focusing on helping victims of gender-based violence get out of economic abuse and consumer debt. From 2020 to 2023, she co-chaired the New York City Domestic Violence & Consumer Law Working Group and recently co-founded the Economic Justice for Survivors Collective, with whom she co-authored a report and policy platform entitled "Reinvesting in Economic Justice, Equity, and Solidarity for Survivors in New York City." Naomi obtained her J.D. at City University of New York School of Law where she was a Graduate Fellow and a Sorensen Center for International Peace & Justice Fellow. She obtained her B.A. summa cum laude from Allegheny College.
According to Naomi, “it is unacceptable that younger generations in the United States have fewer rights today than I was born with. The ERA is critically needed because we live in a country where gender equality is under attack on every side – from the rollback of reproductive rights, to hateful anti-LGBTQIA legislation, to threats to overturn Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges, to persistent economic inequality and deadly gender-based violence. I am thrilled to join the ERA Project and be part of a team with a bold vision, motivated by hope, and working toward substantive equity and justice.”
ERA Project Director Ting Ting Cheng is thrilled to welcome “such a dynamic new member to our team who will contribute immensely to the ERA Project’s mission and vision to define the new frontier of gender justice through the implementation of the ERA. Naomi’s litigation experience and legal expertise in gender-based violence, along with her entrepreneurial spirit and ability to think expansively about the complexity of gender-based inequity, makes her an amazing fit for our team and we could not be more excited to welcome her.”
“Naomi joins our team at the ERA Project at exactly the right time, when the Supreme Court has once again diminished constitutional equality rights – proving the need to add explicit sex equality protections to our founding document ,” said Professor Katherine Franke, founder and Faculty Director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and the ERA Project.