Natalia Ramírez Lee
C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ)
- Email: ramirezleen@uclawsf.edu
- Phone: (415) 581-8961
Bio
Natalia Ramírez Lee is the C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) at UC Law SF. Prior to joining UC Law SF, she was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law where she co-led the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic (WERC). At WERC, she taught a substantive employment law seminar and supervised law students who represented low-wage workers, including domestic workers, agricultural workers, retail workers, warehouse workers, and other workers, in their fight for equitable employment rights.
Professor Ramírez Lee was previously an employment litigator at two boutique employment firms in Oakland where her practice was focused on counseling and representing workers in wage and hour, retaliation, discrimination, and harassment class, representative and individual actions. Prior to her legal career, she was the Director of Human Resources for an environmental consulting company in Bogotá, Colombia. She also directed HIV prevention programs for immigrant women in New York City at the Dominican Women’s Development Center and the Latino Commission on AIDS.
Professor Ramírez Lee graduated from Berkeley Law, where she served as a Managing Editor of the Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy (now the Berkeley Journal of Black Law and Policy), Speakers Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, a Coblentz Civil Rights Fellow and was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law.
Education
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U.C. Berkeley School of Law
J.D. -
Pace University
B.A., Economics, Magna Cum Laude with Honors
Accomplishments
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Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
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Certificate of Specialization in International Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
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Certificate of Specialization in Public Interest Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Selected Scholarship
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Legalizing Othering: The United States of Islamophobia
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society 2017 -
Thinking Ahead When Representing Undocumented Plaintiffs
San Francisco Attorney Magazine Winter 2022 -
Disability Discrimination under California Law, California Employment Law
Practicing Law Institute October 2022