Emma Hyndman is a Project Attorney with the Wage Justice Center (WJC), assisting with the “Wages for Rent” Project by connecting service providers with information about mechanic’s liens and WJC’s services. She previously worked as the Coalition Coordinator for the National Coalition for Worker Justice (NCWJ), coordinating a national network of legal services organizations and worker centers in strategic engagement with the U.S. Department of Labor.

While in law school at UC Law SF (formerly UC Hastings), Emma was involved in pro bono and social justice initiatives including the Workers’ Rights Clinic assisting low-income workers with urgent COVID-19 issues; she also participated in the Hastings-to-Haiti Partnership, traveling to Tapachula and Tijuana, Mexico on human rights fact-finding delegations focused on Title 42’s impact on Haitian asylum seekers. She served as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the UC Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law and completed internships with social justice legal non-profits including Equal Rights Advocates as an Equal Justice America Fellow and Legal Aid at Work as a Peggy Browning Fellow.

Prior to law school, Emma completed a master’s degree in Sociology of Law from the University of the Basque Country, in Onati, Spain.