Staff

Christina Chung

Executive Director, Center for Law and Work

Christina Chung is the founding Executive Director of the Center for Law and Work (CLAW). Before joining CLAW, Christina spent over 20 years in public service and at non-profits advancing the rights of low-wage workers. A gubernatorial appointee under Governors Brown and Newsom, she worked for a decade within the state labor agency on issues of economic equity for low-income communities. As Special Counsel to the California Labor Commissioner, she was the Commissioner’s chief advisor on the most significant legal and policy issues affecting workers in the state, and more...

Vethea Cole

Program Assistant
Berkeley Law

Vethea Cole (they/them) is the Program Assistant providing support for CSLS, the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Legal Studies. They received their A.A. degrees in Political Science and Social & Behavioral Sciences from Allan Hancock College before transferring to U.C. Berkeley and obtaining their B.A. degree in Gender Studies.

Along with a background in mental health care, equity advocacy and harm reduction, Vethea’s contributions are rooted in community care, racial justice, and expanding accessibility– especially for QTBIPOC...

Yvette H. Cooper

Administrative Assistant III
Berkeley Law

Yvette was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in the Silverlake neighborhood. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in American Studies and a minor in Sociology. At Berkeley Law, Yvette provides financial and administrative support for general operations for the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) program, the Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS), and Legal Studies. Yvette prepares and submits financial transactions and payments for approval, assists with NSF grants for faculty and students, coordinates various conferences...

Pamela Erickson

Executive Director
Berkeley Law

Pamela Erickson started as the Executive Director (ED) of the Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley School of Law in December of 2019. Before becoming ED at the Center, Erickson worked as a Constituent Liaison and Legislative Aide for Oakland City Councilmember Abel Guillén. Prior to that she worked at the U.S. State Department in the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor working on democracy and human rights programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and global women’s rights programs. She also served in the U.S Peace Corps in Morocco, writing grants and...