Sean C. Murphy

Sean C. Murphy is the founder of The Workerpedia Project and president of the board of directors. He is a California attorney who received his Juris Doctorate from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2013, where he graduated Cum Laude, received the ABA-BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor and Employment Law, and was instrumental in founding the El Centro de Derechos y Igualdad Wage & Hour Project at the University of New Mexico Law Clinic. Sean began working with the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center when he was selected to serve as a Peggy Browning Fund Fellow during the Summer of 2012. He continues to serve as a volunteer advocate representing low income workers for the Community Legal Services program at LAS-ELC. Sean is also an active member of the San Francisco chapter of the Labor and Employment Committee of the National Lawyers Guild and has volunteered his time to present continuing legal education lectures on wage and hour law. In his previous career Sean worked as a sound engineer for musical theater productions and was a member of IATSE Local 16 in San Francisco, the stagehands’ union. He began contributing to Wikipedia by editing articles about labor and employment law in December of 2013.