Susanna joined First Shift as a Staff Attorney in 2019. She was previously a legal fellow at A Better Balance. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2018. During law school she served as President of Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice and Executive Policy Editor of the Harvard Law and Policy Review, interned at the Exoneration Initiative, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, and participated in the Health Law and Policy and Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinics.

Liana Thomason has been doing work related to gender equity advocacy and sexual harassment prevention since 2014. She has worked at both the high school and college level advocating for policies that support survivors of sexual harassment and assault, as well as conducting community education on Title IX. She most recently worked as a youth educator with the anti-domestic violence organization Shalom Bayit, giving workshops on healthy relationships and teen dating violence to youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a 2019-2020 member of the Avodah Service Corps, Liana will be developing First Shift’s curriculum around the issues of sexual harassment and domestic violence as they pertain to the workplace, as well as conducting client intake interviews. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2019 with a degree in English Literature and minors in Spanish and Philosophy.