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‘We Have to Be Relentless’: #MeToo Champion Debra Katz Is Confident ‘There Will Be Wins’ for Survivors in the Days Ahead

When I went to law school, I had an extraordinary opportunity to get a women’s rights and public policy fellowship through Georgetown that was just focused on women’s rights issues. The year of my fellowship, the Meritor Savings [v. Vinson] case went before the U.S. Supreme Court, the landmark case on sexual harassment—and that was career-defining, for me to get to work with brilliant women from the National Women’s Law Center and the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, now the National Partnership [for Women and Families], in coalition, to figure out the strategy to ensure that we won that case, and that the court would understand that sexual harassment was, in fact, an illegal form of sex discrimination.