Local Leadership
Joanna Weiss, founder and past President of Women for American Values and Ethics (WAVE) Action Fund, is a Democrat, working mom, award-winning litigator, and community organizer born and raised in Orange County.
Local Leadership
Joanna Weiss, founder and past President of Women for American Values and Ethics (WAVE) Action Fund, is a Democrat, working mom, award-winning litigator, and community organizer born and raised in Orange County.
Fighting for Your Rights
For the past six years, Joanna and her team have activated thousands of Orange County residents around the most significant issues of our generation: defending democracy and voting rights; fighting to protect women’s health and reproductive rights; and addressing the devastating effects of climate change.
Joanna’s passion has always been her community-based, pro bono legal work fighting for domestic violence survivors, seniors on fixed incomes, and special needs students. Joanna is a former litigator and Adjunct Professor at Chapman University School of Law, where she taught courses on Pre-Trial Civil Procedure and Public Interest Lawyering. Joanna served on the Board of Directors of the Public Law Center for over a decade and has won multiple awards for her legal and community leadership, including the Women’s Journey Foundation Legacy Award (2019); the ACLU-Southern California’s First Amendment Award (2003); and the Anti-Defamation League Orange County/Long Beach (ADL) Marcus Kaufman Jurisprudence Award (2020).
A Hometown Native
Joanna attended Capistrano Valley High School and Saddleback College, graduated from UCLA, and received her J.D. from USC School of Law, where she served as editor of the Southern California Law Review. A proud former Girl Scout and Girl Scout troop leader, Joanna and her husband, Jason, love to surf, hike, and volunteer in the community with their three children Leah, Will, and Audrey.
I’m Fighting for US
I’m running for Congress in California’s 47th District to ensure every family’s needs and priorities are addressed by Washington decision-makers, whether it is access to affordable healthcare or an end to our homelessness crisis. We need a robust and equitable economy, and housing our future generations and workforce can afford. In living rooms and at front doors across the OC, I’ve heard the following priorities from your neighbors. Tell me what’s important to you, so I can fight for US.
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