Andrea Johnson is Senior Director of State Policy and Strategy and Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. She works with teams across the Center to build out an overarching vision and strategic framework for its state policy and advocacy efforts. Johnson also co-directs the State Gender Policy Collective. Previously, Andrea served as NWLC’s Director of State Policy on the Workplace Justice team where she regularly provided expert legislative testimony on pay discrimination, sexual harassment, and pregnancy discrimination legislation and, alongside state advocates, played a lead role in the passage of such legislation in over a dozen states.

Prior to joining the Center, Johnson was a law clerk for the Honorable Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the Honorable Eric T. Washington, Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She received a law degree from Columbia Law School and a bachelor’s degree in political science and French from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.