Arcelia Hurtado
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Arcelia Hurtado, Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates, has been a life-long activist for civil rights. She has been a trial and appellate lawyer representing adults and children in the criminal justice system and most recently, representing women on death row. Arcelia has also been a teacher having taught at various law schools; a mentor for students pursuing public interest legal careers; and an active board member of various professional, legal services and community-based organizations.

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The Road Forward: An Interview with Jennifer Johnson, Deputy Public Defender, SF

4 Comments | Posted October 20, 2011 | 20:16:55 (EST)

Jennifer Johnson has been working with San Francisco's mental health court to provide gender specific services for women since 2005. She is a founding member of San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court and one of the organizers of The Road Forward, a fundraiser to benefit women as they transition...

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The Women of Wal-Mart

Posted June 16, 2011 | 18:31:14 (EST)

More than 10 years ago, Stephanie Odle made her then-three-year-old daughter a promise. Odle, one of the named plaintiffs in Dukes v. Wal-Mart -- a historic lawsuit that charges the nation's largest employer of sex discrimination in pay and promotions -- told her daughter that she "was never going to...

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The Power of Language

Posted May 25, 2011 | 19:38:04 (EST)

The majority leader of the California Assembly recently referred to the state's chief justice as "attractive" in a debate over legislation to reduce her oversight of the California court system.

Majority Leader Charles Calderon's remarks (D-Whittier) about Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye were inappropriate at best and worthy of the immediate...

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Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law Hits Women the Hardest

Posted July 2, 2010 | 14:12:22 (EST)

Rosa B. was raped at work today. Arizona's anti-immigrant law would also send her to jail if she reports it.

Rosa B.'s story is emblematic of the work that I do with Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), a national women's rights advocacy organization based in San Francisco. Her story also...

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