Caitlin Connolly

As NELP’s Home Care Fair Pay campaign coordinator, Caitlin Connolly is dedicated to working with and supporting caregivers as they advance their rights and improve home care. With the help of Caitlin’s passion and expertise, NELP and its allies are supporting implementation of wage-and-hour protections granted in 2015 to nearly two million home care workers, who were long excluded from the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Moving forward, Caitlin is focused on pushing states and employers to take the necessary steps to implement the rules, while working with NELP’s partners to make sure that home care workers know their rights and see improved wages and conditions that reflect the value of their work. Caitlin came to NELP with a depth of public policy experience and knowledge surrounding issues related to elder care, having served as the project director of the Eldercare Workforce Alliance, a coalition of national organizations committed to providing older adults with quality care by strengthening the workforce trained to care for them. Previously, she worked on quality, research, development, and policy issues as a senior project manager at the American Geriatrics Society. She also has eight years of direct experience working with older adults, people with disabilities, children, youth, and families in low-income, supportive, and public housing. Caitlin has been quoted for her expertise on issues affecting home care workers in the New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, and Bloomberg, among others.