Jocelyn C. Frye Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Hearing of November 20, 2019 - Proposed EEO-1 Report Amendments

Jocelyn Frye is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress where she helps lead policy development for the Women's Initiative, focusing on a wide range of women's economic security and employment issues such as work-family conflicts, pay equity, equal employment opportunity, and women's leadership.  

Her work includes a special focus on developing robust policy solutions to combat gender discrimination in the workplace, and she has written and spoken extensively on sexual harassment and equal pay. Prior to joining American Progress, Frye served for four years as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Special Projects for the First Lady where she oversaw the broad issue portfolio of the First Lady, with a particular focus on women, families, and engagement with the greater DC community. Her responsibilities included working on the First Lady's two signature initiatives, combating childhood obesity and supporting military families, and managing the young women's component of the White House Leadership and Mentoring Initiative, a program connecting selected local high school students with current and former White House staff as mentors, and providing students with a mix of career exploration, college preparation, and educational opportunities. 

Before joining the Obama Administration, Frye served as General Counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families where she concentrated on employment and gender discrimination issues, with a particular emphasis on equal employment enforcement efforts and employment barriers facing women of color and low-income women. During her 15-year tenure at the National Partnership, she testified before Congress and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on federal enforcement of employment discrimination laws and analyzed the effectiveness of federal equal employment enforcement efforts. Prior to her work at the National Partnership, she worked for four years as an associate at Crowell & Moring, a Washington, D.C. law firm, concentrating in the white-collar crime practice area. 

Frye received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from Harvard Law School. She is a proud native of Washington, DC, where she still resides with her husband. She is a member of the Deacons Ministry of Shiloh Baptist Church and serves as the Chair of the Ms. Foundation for Women Board of Directors.