A New York City-based Girl Scouts of the USA employee is suing the organization and her female boss whom she claims tried to bully her out of her job after she learned she was pregnant.

Munirah Samuel, 33, started working for the nonprofit best known for its wildly popular cookies as a customer experience analyst in November 2025. She still remains employed there.

She met with her supervisor Catherine Contrera once a week and received glowing feedback about her work performance from her hiring until February 2026, she alleged in the Aug. 25 filing in Manhattan Supreme Court. 

Contrera, a senior manager of customer service experience, even acted excited when Samuel announced she was pregnant in February.

“Contrera’s initial reaction was congratulatory and enthusiastic,” Samuel claimed in the lawsuit, adding that Contrera said she “wanted to keep her” and hoped she’d return after maternity leave. 

But the Bronx-based supervisor “abruptly” changed her tune at Samuel’s midyear review in April. There were no signs of dissatisfaction during Samuel’s weekly check-ins, she claimed.

Contrera “for the first time” said she wasn’t happy with Samuel’s performance – accusing her of falling behind even though her work proved that she was performing above expectations, the suit claims.

One of Contrera’s alleged gripes with Samuel was that she was working too slowly. But Samuel contends that her work-performance statistics showed she was resolving her customer service cases within 20 to 30 minutes, far below the standardized six hours employees were allotted to complete them. 

When Samuel, who works remotely from her Brooklyn home, tried defending herself, Contrera allegedly slammed her as “combative.” 

“The sudden emergence of these manufactured concerns — immediately after [Samuel]’s pregnancy became known — reflects Contrera’s discriminatory animus,” the filing reads. 

In the weeks that followed, Contrera allegedly scrutinized Samuel over minor mistakes and berated her for using work methods she had previously been instructed to use. Other employees engaging in the same practices weren’t treated this way, Samuel claimed.

Contrera allegedly asked Samuel in June when she planned on taking maternity leave. Samuel, who had her baby last week, said she planned to take her leave during the second week of August. GSUSA gives employees up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

On June 30, just days later, Samuel was hit with a vague “final warning” that if she didn’t improve her performance, she would be axed from the company. 

Samuel raised her concerns to Erica Hybarger, a senior director at GSUSA, who admitted that Contrera was being “nit-picky” and agreed that claims that Samuel was underperforming were simply false, she alleged. 

Hybarger allegedly told Samuel it “would not be surprising” if she were fired.

“All of a sudden it went from ‘you’re doing great, we love you working here’ to ‘you’re a problem, we’re going to put you in this final warning,’” Samuel’s lawyer John Scola told The Post. “The only thing that changed between the flip switching is the notification to the supervisor that she was pregnant.”

Contrera, Hybarger and GSUSA did not return requests for comment. Samuel is suing for an unspecified amount of monetary damages.