Caitlin McCartney

Caitlin McCartney represents survivors of gender-based violence and discrimination in schools, workplaces, and other institutional settings.

For more than a decade, Ms. McCartney has practiced in nonprofit and private settings, developing case strategy and contributing to litigation involving gender-based discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and human trafficking under Title IX, Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, and other federal, state, and local civil rights statutes. Ms. McCartney has also represented student survivors of gender-based violence in school investigations and hearings. 

Ms. McCartney has brought her civil rights expertise to federal and state government agencies. As an Attorney Advisor for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she advised agency leadership and evaluated legislation affecting workers’ rights. Earlier in her career, Ms. McCartney was a Civil Rights Fellow at the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where she investigated complaints involving systemic sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination and led an investigation into Title IX compliance in secondary schools.

Ms. McCartney has written and spoken on gender justice, Title IX, and civil rights, including through scholarship, panel discussions, and media interviews.

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Education

• University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., May 2015
  • North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, Staff Editor
  • Law Students for Reproductive Justice, President         
  • Student Practitioner, UNC Law Immigration Clinic
• Columbia University, M.A., English & Comparative Literature, May 2012  
• Davidson College, B.A., English, cum laude, May 2011                     

Media Features

• Unborn Who? Pregnancy Discrimination at COVID Vaccine Sites, Ms. Magazine, May 26, 2022.
• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Choice in Childbirth: How the ACA’s Nondiscrimination Provisions May Change the Legal Landscape of Childbirth, 24 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY & THE LAW 3 (2016).
• “Childbirth Rights”?: Legal Uncertainties Under the European Convention After Ternovszky v. Hungary, 40 N.C. J. INT’L L. & COM. REG. 543, 543-96 (2014)

Media Features

Ms. McCartney’s expertise and cases have been featured on/in:

• SiriusXM Canada
• CTV, Your Morning

Bar & Court Admissions

• State of New York
• Eastern District of New York

Ms. McCartney is not licensed in the State of Michigan.