Justice at Work is governed by a board of directors with expertise in labor and employment law, immigrants’ rights, and labor and community organizing. The attorneys, organizers and workers on our board have deep personal and professional ties to immigrant and working class communities.
Pablo Carrasco was a senior staff attorney for Justice at Work from 2019-2025, after spending four years as an employee rights/wage and hour attorney at MetroWest Legal Services (MWLS) in Framingham, Massachusetts. His first two years at MWLS he was the Bart-Gordon fellow, a fellowship aimed at improving legal assistance for communities whose linguistic and cultural backgrounds are barriers to the delivery of aid. After two years at MWLS, Pablo was hired as a full-time staff attorney and continued the employee rights/wage and hour project until joining Justice at Work. Currently, Pablo serves as labor counsel for the Boston Public Schools. Pablo graduated from The American University, Washington College of Law and is a member of the Massachusetts and Federal bars. Pablo is a native Spanish speaker having been born in Santiago, Chile. When he is not in the office he can be found fishing, playing basketball, or refurbishing vintage bicycles.
Leo Gertner is a government attorney practicing in the field of public employee labor relations. He previously worked at the Service Employees International Union as a Norm Gleichman Law Fellow and as a staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project in Washington, D.C. Leo received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, which he attended on a public interest scholarship. Prior to law school, he worked as a union grievance representative working with janitors and security officers throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire for SEIU Local 615 (now 32BJ). He has published opinion pieces on labor and politics in the Washington Post, In These Times, New York Daily News, and The American Prospect. Leo speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, and intermediate French. Leo joined the Justice at Work Board in 2024.
Jessie Hahn is the Senior Counsel, Labor and Employment Policy at the National Immigration Law Center, where she engages in legislative and administrative advocacy focused on protecting and expanding the rights of immigrant workers in low-paying jobs. She also provides legal analysis and strategic advice to support immigrant worker advocates around the country on legal and policy matters affecting immigrants in the workplace. Previously, Jessie worked for the Paid Sick Leave Division of the New York City Department of Consumer Affair and the New York State Department of Labor enforcing wage and hour labor standards. She is a graduate of Reed College and Northeastern University School of Law, where she received a Public Interest Law Scholarship. At Northeastern, she researched the legal needs of workers centers, and joined co-founders Ingrid Nava and Thomas Smith in brainstorming the creation of Justice at Work. Jessie joined the Justice at Work Board in 2022.
Carol Mallory directs Northeastern University Law Schools’ Legal Skills in Social Context program, as well as teaching students in the program. She has also taught Employment Law and supervised the Poverty Law and Practice Clinic. She began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Gerald Gillerman of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and then worked for several years as an associate at the Boston firm Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg and Garin before serving as a staff attorney in the Employment Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services for six years. She also had her own firm for two years, providing research and writing services to other attorneys. Professor Mallory joined the Justice at Work board in 2020.
José Palma is a Senior Organizer at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) where he coordinates the National TPS Alliance. Before relocating his family from Massachusetts to Texas and joining NDLON in 2023, José was the Community and Legal Partnerships Coordinator at Justice at Work, beginning in 2017. In 2019, he took a leave of absence to lead a national campaign to demand permanent residency for TPS-holders in the face of the Trump Administration’s threats. Born in Usulután, El Salvador, José came to the U.S. in 1998. He earned his A.S. in Paralegal Studies at North Shore Community College in 2011, which included an internship at Greater Boston Legal Services. Before joining Justice at Work in 2017, José was the Political and Organizing Director for Neighbor-To-Neighbor. He has also worked with Centro Presente and the Student Immigrant Movement and is the co-founder of the Massachusetts TPS Committee.
Ryan McGovern Quinn (treasurer) teaches labor and employment law at Northeastern University School of Law. He previously spent over a decade working in the labor movement, including most recently as a labor lawyer at Segal Roitman in Boston, where he co-founded the first US union of private law firm associates. His practice included private and public sector labor and employment law, with a focus on the constitutional rights of public employees and their unions. Ryan’s research centers on developments in labor law and the future of work, particularly the role of unions in building democratic workplaces and societies. He clerked for the Honorable Mary Thomas Sullivan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and holds an MS in labor studies from UMass Amherst and a JD from Northeastern University School of Law.
Julio Ramirez is a carpenter with years of experience working in low-paying jobs, including seafood processing. He has been a part of the immigrant and worker organizing community for over a decade, starting with his leadership in the New Bedford chapter of the Student Immigrant Movement and continuing today with his involvement with the Brazilian Worker Center’s Building Justice Committee. He has volunteered with Justice at Work since our founding, helping to organize fundraising events in addition to surveying workers in community meetings. A native of Guatemala, Julio has fit his organizing and volunteering efforts in around full-time construction work, now as the owner of JR Framing and Construction. He joined the Justice at Work board in 2021.
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