Elizabeth Kristen

Elizabeth Kristen is a senior staff attorney and the Director of Legal Aid at Work's Gender Equity & LGBT Rights Program, where she represents low-wage workers facing employment discrimination and harassment based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, military, or veteran status.

Ms. Kristen graduated from Berkeley Law in 2001. She was selected for the Order of the Coif and served as an editor for the California Law Review. Prior to joining Legal Aid at Work in 2002 as a Skadden Fellow, Ms. Kristen clerked for the Honorable James R. Browning on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

In 2015, California Lawyer selected Ms. Kristen as one of its California Lawyers of the Year in the field of Civil Rights. She is a Northern California Super Lawyer. Ms. Kristen was the recipient of Protect our Defenders’ Justice Award. In 2012 to 2013, she served as a Harvard law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow. Ms. Kristen was a lecturer at Berkeley Law School from 2008 to 2013.