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Françoise Jacobsohn

Project Manager, Equality Works Program

Françoise Jacobsohn is the project manager for Equality Works, Legal Momentum's economic security program focusing on expanding women's participation in high-paying, non-traditional employment. A former president of NOW-NYC, she most recently worked on an institutional and community-building project for public education in Upper Manhattan.

Françoise has been working in women's rights and community building for more than twenty years both in Europe and in the United States. She is a member of the New York City Mayor's Commission on Construction Opportunity, established in March 2005 to ensure that women and minorities gain access to work in the construction trades.

Françoise has taught a class on "Women, the Law and Public Opinion" for France's Political Science Institute, worked for a European nonprofit focused on violence against women at the workplace, and helped set-up one of the early battered women's shelters in New Jersey in the late 70s.

She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. When she's not working for women's rights Françoise and her children enjoy travel, frequently visiting France to see her family.