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Ann M. Noel is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law’s Gender-Based Harassment/Violence Working Group, organizing international conferences on the topic, and working with international partners to develop model laws and practices regarding harassment. She is a Co-editor of the Berkeley Center’s book, The Globalization of the #MeToo Movement, published in 2020 (www.globalmetoobook.com), which describes the #MeToo movement worldwide, and suggests techniques to combat harassment.
Ms. Noel is the founder of Noel Workplace Consulting, specializing in legal advice and training on California and federal employment law compliance, especially sexual harassment prevention, disability and leave laws. Through the end of 2012, Ms. Noel was the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission’s Executive and Legal Affairs Secretary, serving as its General Counsel, crafting California’s regulations on mandatory sexual harassment training, disability and pregnancy discrimination, and its chief administrative law judge, adjudicating employment, housing and public accommodation cases.
Ms. Noel has written extensively about employment and housing discrimination law, writing and editing practice guides on fair employment, fair housing, the Violence Against Women Act, and hate crimes. Ms. Noel has taught employment discrimination law at New College School of Law in San Francisco. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Davis School of Law.