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Vasu Reddy is the senior policy counsel for economic justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she serves as a legal and policy expert on policies that improve the lives of workers and their families.
Vasu helps policymakers and advocates across the country craft strong, inclusive policies on paid sick days and paid family and medical leave, and has appeared in outlets like Bloomberg News and NPR’s Marketplace to discuss worker power and the importance of care.
Prior to her time at the National Partnership, Vasu worked with a team of law students to design and conduct a study of barriers to education for Los Angeles public school students with disciplinary or juvenile justice issues and formulate policy recommendations based on their findings. She received her B.A. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar.