Jennifer Rosenbaum and Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee
Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum is the founding Legal and Policy Director of the National Guestworker Alliance, a US-based, cross-sectoral membership organisation of temporary foreign workers which advocates for better migration policy and improved workplace standards. For the 2015-2016 academic year, she is also Robina Human Rights Fellow at the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School.
Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Lead Gender Based Violence Researcher, Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), which was officially formed in 2006 and includes more than 76 organizations, including garment industry trade unions, NGOs, consumer groups and research institutes from more than 17 countries from across Asia, Europe and North America. @asiafloorwage06
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