Katherine Wutchiett

Katherine Wutchiett
Senior Staff Attorney

Katie (she/her) is a Staff Attorney in the Work and Family Program and for Project SURVIVE. She represents workers who are pregnant, new parents, caregiving for family, or survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault in enforcing their rights to paid leave, accommodations, and fair treatment at work, so that they can care for themselves and their families without sacrificing their jobs or income. Katie also advocates for stronger policies to support working families and provides community education and technical assistance to promote access to these critical rights. Katie is an expert in family and medical leave policies and was involved in crafting policies to address new and urgent needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as developing tools and strategies to spread access to COVID-19-related workplace protections.

Katie graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015, summa cum laude. While there, she was elected an Articles Editor for the Washington University Law Review, received the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Outstanding Graduate Award, and interned for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Service Employees International Union. Before joining LAAW as a Skadden Fellow in 2016, she clerked for the Hon. Judge Bobby Shepherd of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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