In this powerful episode of Derechos y Esperanza – Rights and Hope, former EEOC Chairs Jenny Yang (nominated by President Barack Obama) and Charlotte Burrows (nominated by President Joe Biden) reunite with professor David Lopez and program associate Abdi Lopez, to discuss their calling to civil rights and their paths to the EEOC.

The conversation traces the EEOC's evolution from its founding as a legacy agency of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to its role defining equality in the modern workplace—from pioneering sexual harassment policy before #MeToo to securing Supreme Court recognition of LGBTQ+ workplace protections in Bostock v. Clayton County. Yang and Burrows reflect on the agency's bipartisan traditions, the career civil servants who form its backbone and their groundbreaking work on AI bias in hiring.

Former Chairs Yang and Bu ...