Udochi Onwubiko is the managing director for economic justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she leads and manages the economic justice team’s policy and advocacy portfolio to advance the National Partnership’s policy priorities and defend decades of progress around paid leave, paid sick days, the wage gap and to promote women’s economic well-being, health and racial and gender equity.
Prior to her work at the National Partnership, Udochi worked at the intersection of racial and economic justice as the director of economic justice at Demos. Before that, she served in the Biden-Harris Administration as Labor Policy Advisor in the Office of the Vice President of the United States. She also served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor, working to support implementation of federal employment laws and empower vulnerable workers to exercise their rights.
In her role as Labor Policy Counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, she helped pass laws providing paid sick leave and childcare leave during the height of the pandemic and extending the right to pump breastmilk in the workplace to more nursing employees. She pushed to center racial equity in economic security policymaking, spearheading a historic congressional hearing on the legacy of the racist exclusion of Black workers in federal wage laws.
Udochi graduated from Cleveland State University College of Law and holds an M.A. in Media and Strategic Communication from the George Washington University and a B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Mississippi.
