Josephine Weinberg
Attorney, California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)
Josephine Weinberg is an attorney working in Salinas, California with California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), a non-profit law firm. She works in CRLA’s Agricultural Worker Program, representing individuals and groups of workers in administrative and court proceedings in a wide range of employment matters including wage and hour, retaliation, discrimination and sexual harassment.
She has served as chair of CRLA’s union, the Legal Services Workers of Rural California. Prior to joining CRLA, Josephine worked in Nicaragua advocating for sugarcane workers affected by the epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of non-traditional causes (CKDnT). Her work included co-founding a legal services office providing free assistance to workers and their families. She also served as the Director of Law and Human Rights at La Isla Network investigating and documenting human rights abuses connected to the CKDnT epidemic.
Josephine holds a JD from New College of California School of Law and a Master’s in International Law and Human Rights from the University for Peace.
