Elizabeth Watson

Liz Watson has spent most of her career working on labor and economic policy. Watson previously served as Labor Policy Director and Chief Labor Counsel on the House Committee on Education and Labor. Currently, she is Executive Director of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center. Earlier in her career, Watson directed the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy. She also worked at the National Women’s Law Center, and Workplace Flexibility 2010, at Georgetown University Law Center. Watson taught courses in employment law and legislative process at Indiana University. She was also an associate at Orrick and Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, a Skadden Public Interest Law Fellow, and a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Susan Illston (N.D. Cal.). She earned her J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. degree from Carleton College. Watson grew up in Bloomington, Indiana and she currently resides in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband, son and daughter, and their dog.