Yoorie Chang is the Project Manager for CLJE:Lab, the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy. In her role, she focuses on advancing strategies and policy interventions that enable working people to build power, and manages partnerships with stakeholders across the labor movement ecosystem. Prior to joining CLJE, Yoorie was a part of the applied research and evaluation team at the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, where she worked on issues related to job quality, worker voice, employee ownership, and racial and gender equity in the workplace.
Previously, Yoorie has supported organizing in higher education with SEIU Local 200United and served as a research fellow at the Worker Institute. Originally from Seoul, South Korea and raised in Colorado, Yoorie received a B.S. with honors in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.