Empower Work receives Jefferson Award for helping people deal with discrimination, harassment on the job

An estimated 40 million American small business employees don’t feel like they have enough resources to deal with on-the-job harassment, discrimination, or other serious issues. Last year, Empower Work, led by founder and executive director Jaime-Alexis Fowler, helped empower some 80,000 people last year through crises in their own workplaces.