Tequila Brooks

Tequila Brooks is an attorney and international employment policy specialist living and working in the Washington, DC area. She is a member of the ILO's Research Network on Improving workers' rights in globalizing economies, serves as an expert adisor on gender and workplace issues for the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center, is a frequent contributor to the American Bar Association International Employment Lawyer and serves as a lecturer on international labor and trade matters. Her publications include 'An Introduction to Mexican Workers' Compensation Law for the US Workers' Compensation Practitioner' (IAIABC Journal, fall 2003) and 'Cross-Border Workers' Compensation and Social Security Policy in North America: An Analysis of the NAFTA Trucking Dispute through the eyes of a Workers' Compensation Practitioner' (IAIABC Journal, spring 2005).

Ms Brooks served as Labor Law Advisor with the North American Commission for Labor Cooperation Secretariat for five and a half years. While with the North American CLC, Ms Brooks co-authored a study comparing the laws impacting migrant agricultural workers in Canada, Mexico and the United States (2003) and was primary author and project coordinator of a tri-national clear language guide to labor and employment laws for migrant workers in North America (2004). She also conducted and supervised research in the areas of employment discrimination, equal pay and employment equity law and policy and workers' compensation and occupational safety and health laws in North America, and was responsible for spearheading specialized focus groups and meetings on migrant worker issues, comparative workplace discrimination and equal pay law, women workers' issues and special issues involving women workers and long-term disabilities.

Prior to joining the CLC, Ms Brooks represented low income workers in workers' compensation and unemployment cases in the state of New Mexico. Ms Brooks received her JD and MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1997 and her BA from St John's College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1991. She has an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the George Washington University School of Law (2010) in Washington, DC, an LL.M. in International and European Labour Law from Tilburg University Law School in Tilburg, Netherlands (2012) and a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University (2007).