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Meredith Stewart is the Litigation Director for Jobs to Move America. Prior to joining JMA in 2025, Meredith served as an attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for 13 years, where she developed and led impact litigation to expand the labor and civil rights of workers. She has represented workers in individual and class action lawsuits brought under various labor and employment, anti-retaliation, anti-trafficking, and civil rights laws. Meredith was lead counsel for SPLC on a civil rights case that won a landmark settlement awarding over $1 million to meatpacking workers detained in a workplace immigration raid. She was also counsel on a forced labor and discrimination case that resulted in an unprecedented $14 million jury verdict for workers recruited from India to help repair Gulf Coast oil rigs damaged during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Meredith has co-authored three widely cited reports on guest worker programs in the United States and has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration about the same. Before becoming an attorney, Meredith was an organizer and organizing director with UNITE HERE for eight years, where she supported union organizing campaigns in the industrial laundry and hospitality sectors. She is a graduate of the University of Memphis School of Law and Smith College.