Najah Farley

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Najah Farley

Najah FarleyNajah FarleyNajah Farley
  • Home
  • Creative Work
    • We Call Them Destiny
    • 42 and Morbidly Obese
    • NYWC Anthology
  • Policy Analyses
    • Project Syndicate
    • USA Today
    • LPE Project
  • Media Engagements
    • WFH & Wages
    • The Worker Experience
    • Secure Women
  • About Me

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Najah Farley

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Brooklyn Based Writer, Lawyer and Policy Analyst

About Me

Biography

 

Najah Farley grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and now practices workers’ rights law in Brooklyn, New York. Najah has written about topics such as wage theft, sexual harassment in the workplace and noncompetes in the Guardian, the Harvard Law and Policy Review blog, Project Syndicate, and the Law and Political Economy blog. Najah returned to her first love, fiction writing in 2020 and since then has been published in Raising Mothers Literary Magazine, and Common Unity, a New York Writers Coalition collection. She is the recipient of a Highlights Foundation scholarship. She is currently working on a short story collection and a children’s book series. 

Philosophy

 

Najah writes about Black Muslim women and girls, motherhood, disability, Afro-futurism and Black girlhood. She admires authors such as Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Octavia Butler as well as Kiese Laymon, Da’Shaun Harrison, Ayana Mathis, Aaliyah Bilal and Jesmyn Ward. 


Her policy work also centers Black women and girls . She has done trainings on wage theft and Black women in the workplace with We Dream in Black, part of the National Domestic Worker's Alliance, the National Employment Lawyers Association, and the National Lawyers Guild. She has also testified before various legislative bodies on labor policy as well.

Recent Work

The Right to Change JobsEight Reactions to the FTC’s Proposed Ban on Noncompetes, Law and Political Economy ProjectWe Call Them DestinyCommon Unity

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”


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