Biography
Anna Y. Park is the Regional Attorney for the Los Angeles District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). Ms. Park is one of fifteen Regional Attorneys tasked nationally to oversee and direct all employment discrimination litigation on behalf of the EEOC. Ms. Park’s vast and diverse region covers Central & Southern California, Nevada, Hawaii, and the U.S. territories in the Pacific which includes Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands. She is the first AANHPI woman to hold this position.
Since joining the EEOC, Ms. Park has brought influential and innovative cases that advance the work of the EEOC to combat discrimination in the workplace. Ms. Park has been recognized for her work on groundbreaking cases like EEOC v. Trans Bay Steel and EEOC v. Global Horizons, et al., challenging labor trafficking as a civil rights violation under federal anti-discrimination laws. Notably, Global Horizons was the largest national origin discrimination case brought by the EEOC, garnering judgments and settlements exceeding $22 million on behalf of hundreds of Thai farmworkers.
Ms. Park has also brought significant sexual harassment cases spanning a myriad of industries that include agriculture, construction, trucking, gaming, entertainment, garment, hospitality, food and beverage, travel, and janitorial services. Recently, she resolved the largest sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and retaliation case against a video game giant that the EEOC district office has ever recovered. The case of EEOC v. ABM Industries, Inc. et al., was featured on PBS’s Frontline: “Rape on the Night Shift,” bringing to light sexual harassment faced by women in janitorial services. The Los Angeles Times recently featured an in-depth article highlighting several race harassment cases brought by the EEOC, shining a light on the ongoing pervasive harassment faced by African Americans.
Ms. Park is a subject matter expert within and outside of the EEOC on the intersection of discrimination issues with human trafficking, immigration, and other complex employment discrimination cases. She serves on numerous regional taskforces for human trafficking and was a longstanding member and participant in the regional network of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans Native Hawaiians Pacific Islanders.