saru jayaraman
saru jayaraman
Saru Jayaraman is a renowned leader in the fight for fair minimum wage and improved working conditions for the nearly 14 million restaurant workers in America. She is the President and co-founder of One Fair Wage, a campaign focused on achieving a full and fair minimum wage with tips as supplemental earnings, and the Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and has authored best-selling books such as Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining. Saru Jayaraman has been recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House, has won the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award, and was named as one of CNN's Top10 Visionary Women.