Press Release

PRC Welcomes New Additions

Issued by Pension Rights Center

Apr. 2, 2025

Spring is in the air, and consistent with the upcoming season of growth and renewal, the Pension Rights Center is excited to welcome four additions to our team: a new legal director and three new members of our Board of Directors.  

Theresa (Tess) S. Gee, PRC’s new legal director, has wide-ranging experience with retirement issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Starting with the U.S. Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor, she rose to Deputy Associate Solicitor representing the interests of ERISA plans and their participants and beneficiaries. In private practice, she focused on ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction issues as a partner and former chair of her firm’s Employee Benefits Department. Tess was the primary author of ERISA: Department of Labor Investigations, Enforcement and Litigation (PLI). She is a member of the American Academy of Employee Benefits Counsel and a member of the adjunct faculty at George Washington University Law School.  

As PRC’s legal director, Tess provides legal guidance and counsel on a broad range of pension issues. She also facilitates PRC’s role as the resource center for six regional pension counseling projects supported by the  Administration on Community Living, which provides critical retirement assistance to individuals in 31 states.  

Buttressing the Board of Directors, which provides advice and guidance to PRC’s staff, are lawyers Radha (Rachana) Pathak and Jason Levy and economist Ilana Boivie.

Radha Pathak, a partner at the law firm Stris & Maher LLP, is well suited to provide advice, insights and direction to PRC as part of our Board due to her experience representing pension and welfare benefit plan participants and beneficiaries in individual and class actions. She has litigated numerous cases involving complex procedural issues in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal circuit courts of appeals, and federal district courts throughout the country. She was previously a tenured professor at Whittier Law School. 

Jason Levy, Senior Counsel at Great Gray Trust Company, serves as a legal and retirement policy advisor for Great Gray’s collective investment trusts (CITs) – pooled investment vehicles maintained by fiduciary trustees that are focused on the retirement plan market. Previously, Jason worked for 13 years as an attorney at Covington & Burling, LLP, where, among other things, he represented the Pension Rights Center pro bono and advanced common ground retirement policy initiatives involving the Pension Rights Center and private-sector clients.  

Ilana Boivie, the Assistant Director of Strategic Resources for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) brings to PRC 16 years of experience working on health and retirement benefit issues for working Americans. At the IAM, Ilana conducts labor research and economic analysis in support of legislative initiatives and labor policy issues. In 2024, she was appointed by President Biden to the Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.  

“This is an amazing time of growth for PRC, and we are so pleased to welcome Tess, Radha, Jason and Ilana to help us in our mission to promote retirement income security for all Americans,” PRC’s Executive Director Karen Friedman said.   

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