POLITICAL/LEGAL
Joi Olivia Chaney is Chief of Staff for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. She is the director of Equal Pay Today, a coalition of women’s rights, worker’s rights, and civil rights organizations working together to close the gender wage gap for all women, including women of color. She has a long-standing history advocating for equal pay rights, gender equality, and government service. She served in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a political appointee in the Office of the Chair. She also served as policy sirector and counsel of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee under Harry Reid who was senate majority leader at the time. She also has served as director of Government Relations at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
