Jared Make serves as a Vice President at A Better Balance. A member of ABB’s staff since 2010, Jared works alongside advocates and coalitions around the United States to write and pass laws that guarantee paid sick time, paid family and medical leave, and paid public health emergency leave. With his colleagues at ABB, Jared has helped to draft laws that provide paid sick time to approximately 60 million Americans. He has also championed the adoption and implementation of paid family and medical leave insurance programs in 13 states and Washington D.C., including the groundbreaking passage of Colorado’s paid family and medical leave ballot initiative in 2020. Jared’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Politico, Associated Press, Fortune, Slate, Fast Company, The Denver Post, and Colorado Public Radio.
Jared co-founded ABB’s LGBTQ Rights and Family Recognition Project to protect the rights of LGBTQ workers, raise awareness about the diversity of family structures, and enact workplace policies that cover a range of caregiving relationships. This effort has led to new paid leave protections around the country that entitle millions of workers to care for close loved ones, even without a biological or legal relationship. Jared also helped to launch ABB’s Defending Local Democracy Project to strengthen, protect, and defend progressive, local laws across the U.S. Through this project, he has worked closely with cities to prevent state legislation that would restrict or overturn local laws guaranteeing work-family protections, such as paid leave, LGBTQ nondiscrimination, and fair scheduling.
Jared graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and cum laude from NYU School of Law. At NYU Law, he served as President of the HIV Law Society and volunteered with OUTLaw, the National Lawyers Guild, and Law Students for Human Rights. He was honored at NYU Law with the Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize for outstanding work in a clinical course requiring student practice. He resides in Denver, Colorado.
