Nicole Tortoriello is the lead attorney for the Workplace Justice Project, which works to fight wage theft, empower workers, and promote justice and equity in the workplace. Prior to joining the PJC, Nicole served as Labor Oversight Counsel to the Senate HELP Committee under Senator Bernie Sanders from 2023-2025. She served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Workers’ Rights and Antifraud Section of the Office of the Attorney General of the District of Columbia from 2021-2023, where she focused on worker’s rights enforcement, including wage theft, worker misclassification, and the District’s universal paid leave program.
Previously, she was the Secular Society Women’s Rights Advocacy Counsel at the ACLU of Virginia from 2018-2021, where she was responsible for the organization’s full portfolio of gender justice issues in both litigation and advocacy, including anti-discrimination protections, criminal legal reform, and reproductive rights. Nicole has also clerked for the Honorable Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for Maryland, practiced at Arnold & Porter LLC in Washington, DC, and worked to close achievement gaps for low-income students and students of color at The Education Trust. Nicole earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University.
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