{"id":19654,"date":"2023-12-14T15:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/?post_type=profile&p=19654"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:15:36","slug":"saru-jayaraman","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/profile\/saru-jayaraman\/","title":{"rendered":"Saru Jayaraman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release for Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series<\/a><\/p>\n

Saru Jayaraman is the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9\/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), which grew into a national movement of restaurant workers, employers and consumers. She then launched One Fair Wage as a national campaign to end all subminimum wages in the United States. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was listed in CNN\u2019s \u201cTop10 Visionary Women\u201d and recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2014, a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2015, and the SF Chronicle \u2018Visionary of the Year\u2019 in 2019. <\/span>Saru is also the author of four books including <\/span>One Fair Wage: Ending All Subminimum Pay in America<\/span><\/i> (The New Press, November 2021). Additional publications include <\/span>Behind the Kitchen Door<\/span><\/i> (Cornell University Press, 2013), <\/span>Forked: A New Standard for American Dining <\/span><\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2016), and <\/span>Bite Back: People Taking on Corporate Food and Winning, <\/span><\/i>(UC Press, 2020).\u00a0She has appeared on MSNBC, HBO, PBS, CBS, and CNN. She attended the Golden Globes in January 2018 with Amy Poehler as part of the Time\u2019s Up action to address sexual harassment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n