Anna Park

Anna Y. Park is the Regional Attorney for the Los Angeles District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). Ms. Park is one of fifteen Regional Attorneys tasked nationally to oversee and direct all employment discrimination litigation on behalf of the EEOC. Ms. Park’s vast region covers Central & Southern California, Southern Nevada, and the Pacific which includes Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands. She is the first AAPI woman to hold this position.

Since joining the EEOC, Ms. Park has brought influential and innovative cases to further the work of the EEOC. Ms. Park has been recognized for her work on groundbreaking cases like EEOC v. Trans Bay Steel and EEOC v. Global Horizons, et al., challenging labor trafficking as a civil rights violation under federal anti-discrimination laws. Notably, Global Horizons was the largest national origin discrimination case brought by the EEOC, garnering judgments exceeding $18 million on behalf                         of Thai farmworkers. 

She has also brought significant sexual harassment cases spanning a myriad of industries, including agriculture, construction, trucking, gaming, entertainment, garment, hospitality, food and beverage, travel, and janitorial services. Recently, Ms. Park resolved the sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and related retaliation case against the video game giant Activision, et. al. for $18 million, the largest sexual harassment resolution the district has ever recovered. The case of EEOC v. ABM Industries, Inc. et al., was featured on PBS’s Frontline: “Rape on the Night Shift.” In 2020, she                                                                    was the architect of the $10 million resolution with JPL for age discrimination.

Ms. Park is consulted as a subject matter expert within and outside of the EEOC on discrimination issues including human trafficking, immigration, sexual harassment, and other complex employment discrimination cases, including joint-employer relationships. She also serves on numerous regional taskforces for human trafficking and is an active member of the  White House Initiative on AANHPI.