Elizabeth Newman

Workplace Policy and Legislative Director, San Francisco Department on the Status of Women

San Francisco

Elizabeth is the Workplace Policy and Legislative Director at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women where she advocates for legislation, conducts research, and manages programs to advance women’s human rights and economic empowerment. She leads the Gender Equality Principles, an award-winning initiative to advance women in the workplace, and undertakes gender analyses of the City’s workforce and operations under the ground-breaking San Francisco Women’s Human Rights Ordinance. Elizabeth previously worked as an advocate and organizer for workers’ rights and economic justice at the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO, and coordinated field programs for candidate and issue campaigns.

She earned her Master of Public Policy from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and has a Bachelor’s in Sociology and Women's Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.