Julianna Gesiotto is a Staff Attorney working across CWLC’s multiple avenues of advocacy to fight inequality and protect the rights of women and girls. Before joining CWLC, Julianna worked in employment litigation at both the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and at a private firm. She helped workers who were denied proper wages, discriminated against, or harassed on the basis of a protected class.

Prior to law school, Julianna worked at the National Organization for Women (NOW), to better the lives of women and girls across the country by advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights, and in support of sexual assault survivors. Julianna graduated cum laude from Loyola Law School as a public interest scholar where she was a board member of both the ACLU Loyola and Reproductive Justice LA, and she completed a practicum in civil rights litigation. She earned her undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland.