Rosha Jones represents clients in employment law matters including discrimination, sexual harassment, leave of absence, breach of contract, wage and hour claims, whistleblower retaliation, and class action litigation. Prior to joining Rukin Hyland Doria & Tindall, Rosha worked at Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center ("ELC") in the Wage and Hour, Gender, and National Origin Programs. While at ELC, Rosha worked on both individual and class action employment discrimination and wage and hour issues.
Rosha graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she received the American Jurisprudence Award in Employment Discrimination and Race & American Law as well as the Prosser Prize in Constitutional Law and Refugee Law. During law school, Rosha was a law clerk for Lewis Feinberg Lee Renaker & Jackson, where she worked on class action employment discrimination and wage and hour cases. Rosha was one of two students in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Boalt to publish a report on the impact of U.S. immigration detention and deportation policies on U.S. citizen children and their families, which was featured in the Los Angeles Times. Rosha was also the Training Coordinator for the California Asylum Representation Clinic, a student-run clinic that that trains law students to represent asylum applicants. During her first summer of law school, Rosha interned for the Legal Department of ACLU of Northern California, where she worked on religious liberty, discrimination in education, and national security issues.
Rosha has also worked for the National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement, a non-profit civil rights organization focused on the civil rights of Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian people, and specifically post-9/11 discrimination issues. Rosha previously worked at the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) with a senior federal investigator, where she helped created the EEOC's national outreach campaign to the Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian communities and organized a cultural sensitivity training for EEOC staff.
In addition to her practice, Rosha is on the board of directors for Dolores Street Community Services, and is the Co-President of the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting public interest legal work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rosha is admitted to the State Bar of California, the bars of all of the U.S. District Courts of California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Rosha is proficient in Farsi.
Rosha received her B.A. in History and Political Science from UC Berkeley, graduating with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa.
