1. Seth D Harris was born on October 12,1962 and is an American attorney, academic, and former government official.
16 Facts About Seth Harris
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Seth Harris was a member of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's Board of Directors.
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Seth Harris stepped down from his post on January 16,2014.
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Seth Harris currently serves on boards of directors, advising early stage companies, and works as a professor of the practice in law and policy at Northeastern University.
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Seth Harris's father is the late Dr Jonathan Harris, a high school teacher and author of young adult non-fiction books.
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Seth Harris's mother is Martha Harris, a retired high school librarian.
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Seth Harris served as Counselor to the Secretary and in other Labor Department policymaking roles for seven years advising both President Bill Clinton's first-term Labor Secretary Robert Reich and second-term Secretary Alexis Herman on legal, policy and management issues.
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Seth Harris's scholarship focused on the economics of labor and employment law, with a particular emphasis on the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Seth Harris has written about the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, worker organizing, and employment discrimination laws in general.
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Seth Harris served as a Senior Fellow of the Life Without Limits Project of the United Cerebral Palsy Association and a member of Georgetown University Law School's Workplace Flexibility 2010 National Advisory Commission.
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Seth Harris served as a member of the Agency Review Working Group of the Obama-Biden Transition Team with responsibility for the federal government's transportation, labor, and education agencies.
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Seth Harris chaired Obama for America's Labor, Employment and Workplace Policy Committee and Disability Policy Committee.
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Seth Harris had served as a member of the Clinton-Gore Transition Team in 1992 and 1993.
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In November 2020, Seth Harris was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Labor.
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Seth Harris was reportedly considered for the position of Secretary of Labor in the Biden administration.
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In 1997, Seth Harris married Karen Beth Rosen, a social worker and psychotherapist.