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Steve Savner
Steve Savner
Director of Public Policy
Steve Savner is Director of Public Policy at the Center for Community Change and in that position he leads the Center’s policy and legislative activities. From 1994 to 2004, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) where his work focused on issues relating to federal and state welfare and workforce development policy, and on public job creation programs. Mr. Savner has written extensively on these issues, and has testified before Congress, as well as before state and local legislative bodies. From 1982 to 1994, Mr. Savner worked at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in advocacy and litigation regarding welfare, employment, job training, and child care policy. From 1977 to 1981, he was an attorney at the National Employment Law Project in New York City where he specialized in employment discrimination litigation, and also worked on issues concerning unemployment insurance and job training policies. He was on the legal staff of the Seafarers International Union from 1975 to 1977. He received a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Chicago in 1970, graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco in 1974, and received a Master’s Degree in Labor Law from New York University School of Law in 1975.
