Patrick is a graduate student researcher (GSR) in the Low-Wage Work Program and a current Ph.D. student in sociology at UC Davis. His research focuses on the intersection of public policy, inequality, and organizations, with the goal of identifying policies that can promote greater equity within labor markets. He has experience designing and administering surveys, […]

Ellen Love focuses on strengthening local and state labor law enforcement, working directly with labor enforcement agencies as well as their community-based partners. Ellen has 10 years of hands-on experience implementing local labor laws with the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement. Ellen facilitated outreach on new labor laws, led data collection and analysis, […]

Dr. Carmen Brick is a senior researcher with the Low-Wage Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Her research at the Labor Center focuses on job quality, access to job training, and the growing affordability crisis affecting worker well-being. Carmen is an alum of the Shift Project, where her research examined the production of […]

Leila is a first-year student in the Master of City Planning program studying transportation policy and planning. As a researcher, she is interested in understanding the commuting challenges facing low-wage workers, as well as labor organizing amidst a green transition in transportation systems. Before coming to Berkeley, Leila worked as a data analyst at a […]

Carmen is an MPP candidate at the Goldman School of Public Policy and a GSR working with the Low-Wage Work team. Before coming to UC Berkeley Carmen worked as a research associate at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, where she analyzed minimum wages, occupational segregation, the effect of the COVID-19 recession on the U.S. […]

Kassandra is a GSR with the Low-Wage Work (LWW) team. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Economics at UC Berkeley. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in low-wage labor markets, inequality, and immigration, along with the role of government in including or excluding individuals from resources available to U.S. citizens or lawful permanent […]

Aida Farmand is an economic policy researcher with significant experience in labor market research. Her research focuses on bargaining power of workers, the public cost of low wages, and the dynamics of the low-wage labor markets with a particular focus on gender and racial inequities. Previously, she worked as a research associate for the Schwartz […]

Seema N. Patel has more than 20 years of combined experience in labor and employment law and policy, workers’ rights, union organizing, and movement lawyering. She has dedicated her career to fighting to improve conditions for low-wage workers—predominantly within communities of color. Seema holds a joint appointment as Practitioner in Residence at the UC Berkeley […]

Kelly Quinn is a PhD candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley. Her research examines the ways in which labor market power dynamics influence occupation-level subcontracting. At the Labor Center, Quinn is currently studying efforts by unions to limit the use of outsourcing and secure better compensation and protections for service workers at the University of […]