Katherine Anne Brady

Kathy Brady is a Staff Attorney based in San Francisco. She has worked with the ILRC since 1987. Along with expertise in family immigration, immigrant children and youth, and removal defense, she is a national expert on the intersection of immigration and criminal law. In 2007, she received the Carol King award of advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. She also served as a Commissioner to the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration from 2009 to 2012. Ms. Brady is credited with helping to found the practice of crim/imm in California and expanding it within the immigration and criminal law systems.

Educational & Employment History • J.D. UC Berkeley School of Law • BA Stanford University • Has worked at ILRC since 1987

Ms. Brady is a frequent speaker and consultant, and has co-authored several manuals, including Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (ILRC), California Criminal Defense of Immigrants (CEB), the chapter on representing immigrants in California Criminal Law – Procedure and Practice (CEB), and Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts (ILRC). She helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network.