Bio
Kelly Jenkins-Pultz is the Regional Administrator for the San Francisco Women’s Bureau office which serves the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada. She creates and delivers educational programs to advance women’s wages, job opportunities and benefits; and provides technical assistance to educators, business and community leaders about policies and programs to enhance women’s economic status. Kelly has expertise in the areas of equal pay, nontraditional jobs, workplace flexibility and working mothers. She was the Women’s Bureau’s lead writer for the report, Fifty Years after the Equal Pay Act: Assessing the Past, Taking Stock of the Future, issued by the National Equal Pay Task Force. In the area of nontraditional jobs, she has initiated several interagency working groups on tradeswomen that are actively promoting new opportunities for women in apprenticeship and the trades throughout the region. She is an active member of the San Diego Expanding Your Horizons Committee to promote career opportunities for women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. She also provides training to lead employers in the creation of healthy workplaces for working mothers and greater workplace flexibility for everyone. Prior to joining the Women’s Bureau, Kelly worked with nonprofit organizations and with elected officials at the municipal, state and federal levels of government. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Women’s Studies from the George Washington University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in English from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.