Gillian Thomas is a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, where she specializes in equal employment opportunity litigation and policy. She previously was a Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s New York District Office and a Senior Staff Attorney with Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, as well as an Associate with Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C. in New York.

Gillian has nearly two decades of experience litigating pregnancy discrimination claims, and writes and speaks often on the subject. Her written work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and CNN.com, among other outlets. She is the author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work (St. Martin’s Press, 2016).