Julie Su fights for workers as acting labor secretary and wants her own team to have a life outside the office.
Successful women talk about managing their careers, and their lives.Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: US Department of Labor/Yulia Reznikov
As the head of the U.S. Department of Labor, acting secretary Julie Su oversees nearly 17,000 civil servants who are tasked with strengthening labor rights. Su, the daughter of Chinese immigrants,fighting for workers. She started out as a civil-rights lawyer, and her anti-sweatshop work earned her a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2001. She moved into government after 17 years as a litigator.
I started my career working at a civil-rights organization, fighting alongside low-wage workers like garment workers, restaurant workers, and caregivers. Getting to do work that matters, where you feel like every day you wake up and you get to make a difference in the world, gave me a lot of energy and purpose. I came into government with the same idea that you could really make a difference in people’s lives and make government work well and be truly accessible to people.
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