Lorena Roque is the associate director for labor policy on the Education, Labor & Worker Justice team at CLASP. Her research focuses on job quality, labor standards, and occupational safety and health. As a public policy economist, she brings her expertise in labor market data analysis and quantitative research. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Fast Company. 

Before coming to CLASP, Lorena was a senior policy analyst with the Center for American Progress (CAP), where she focused on the intersection of economic policy and racial justice. Her work included papers on comprehensive policy reform aimed at improving the economic well-being and health of Latino Americans as well as on how the economic recovery is perpetuating systematic racism. Lorena was also head of negotiations for CAP Union. Prior to CAP, Lorena worked as a policy analyst at the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy and as a financial services committee fellow for U.S. House Representative David Scott, among other positions.

Lorena holds a M.P.P. with a focus on economic policy from George Washington University and a B.A. in Economics from Southwestern University. She is a PhD candidate in Public Policy part-time at George Washington University.