Seher Khawaja

You want to get to know her because:

• At ERA, Seher leads Equal Pay Today, a coalition of national, regional, and state organizations dedicated to achieving wage justice, eradicating the gender and race wage gaps, and advancing economic security for women, families, and communities of color. Seher also leads ERA’s wage justice advocacy efforts in New York State.
• Before joining ERA, Seher was the Director of Economic Justice at Legal Momentum, where she led policy advocacy, litigation, and educational initiatives to advance women’s economic security, with a focus on underserved populations, including women of color, immigrant women, women in lower-wage work, and survivors of gender-based violence.
• Seher has a background in economic justice and human rights and is dedicated to translating best practices from the local to the global and vice versa. She has worked in local, national, and international spheres from New York City to South Africa. She served on Mayor Mamdani’s transition team and has previously worked for the New York City Housing Authority, the Global Justice Center, the Institute for Global Policy, and the United Nations Development Program. 
• Seher regularly speaks and writes about gender equality, civil rights protections, and economic justice issues. Her work has been covered by Ms. Magazine, PBS, City Limits, HuffPost, Jurist, the Daily News, and The Hill. 

Alum of:

• Brooklyn Law School (J.D.), Sparer Public Interest Fellow
• The London School of Economics (M.Sc. in International Relations with distinction)
• The Johns Hopkins University (B.A. in International Relations with a minor in Economics)

Outside of work: 

• Seher loves to travel and explore new and old places with her family and friends, to make and experience art, to go for runs in her neighborhood and hikes upstate, watch a soccer game, and read five pages of a book before running off to play with her kids.