Bella Book

Senior Program Specialist and Program Attorney, Workplace and Economic Justice

Bella Book is a Senior Program Specialist and Program Attorney for the Workplace and Economic Justice team. In this capacity, she develops and implements trainings, technical assistance, and practical tools to build capacity for attorneys and advocates to assist survivors with the unique challenges they face accessing and utilizing their employment protections. 

Prior to joining FUTURES, she served as a staff attorney at Legal Aid of North Carolina, holistically assisting low-wealth communities and low-wage workers on a variety of civil legal issues. Bella isend  from Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in English and History. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where she argued on behalf of workers seeking unemployment insurance at every level of the Michigan state court system and received the Craig Spangenberg Oral Advocacy Award and the Robert S. Feldman Labor Law Award, both by faculty nomination. 

Bella is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and is currently an Education co-chair for the Employment Executive Committee of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and sits on the Labor and Employment Council for the North Carolina Bar Association.